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| VALA-GEN-INTROSPECT(1) |
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VALA-GEN-INTROSPECT(1) |
NAME¶
vala-gen-introspect - generate a GI file for GObject and glib based packages
SYNOPSIS¶
vala-gen-introspect PKGNAME PKGBASE
DESCRIPTION¶
vala-gen-introspect is a utility which generates GI files from GObject
and glib based packages. It can be used in combination with vapigen(1) to
generate an API for Vala, and allow it's usage in Vala for compiling to native
code. PKGNAME is the pkg-config name of the library and PKGBASE
specifies the base directory for that package.
Usage:¶
- gen-introspect [OPTION?]
Help Options:¶
- -h, --help
- Show help options
Application Options:¶
- -v, --verbose
- Be verbose
- -o, --output=FILE
- write output here instead of stdout
- -n, --namespace=NAMESPACE
- Namespace of the module, like 'Gtk'
- --shared-library=FILE
- Shared library which contains the symbols
- --include-idl=IDL
- Other gidls to include
AUTHORS¶
J??rg Billeter <j@bitron.ch>, Raffaele Sandrini <rasa@gmx.ch>
EXAMPLES¶
After compilation, the following command generates a GI for pango:
vala-gen-introspect pango packages/pango
- This can then be converted to a Vala API as follows:
- vapigen --pkg cairo --vapidir . --library pango
packages/pango/pango.gi
