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VALAC(1) |
NAME¶
valac - compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files
SYNOPSIS¶
valac [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION¶
Vala is a programming language that aims to bring modern programming language
features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime
requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and
libraries written in C.
- valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates
- Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject type
system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source
code.
Usage:¶
- valac [OPTION?] FILE... - Vala Compiler
Help Options:¶
- -?, --help
- Show help options
Application Options:¶
- --vapidir=DIRECTORY...
- Look for package bindings in DIRECTORY
- --girdir=DIRECTORY...
- Look for .gir files in DIRECTORY
- --metadatadir=DIRECTORY...
- Look for GIR .metadata files in DIRECTORY
- --pkg=PACKAGE...
- Include binding for PACKAGE
- --vapi=FILE
- Output VAPI file name
- --library=NAME
- Library name
- --shared-library=NAME
- Shared library name used in generated gir
- --gir=NAME-VERSION.gir
- GObject-Introspection repository file name
- -b, --basedir=DIRECTORY
- Base source directory
- -d, --directory=DIRECTORY
- Change output directory from current working directory
- --version
- Display version number
- --api-version
- Display API version number
- -C, --ccode
- Output C code
- -H, --header=FILE
- Output C header file
- --use-header
- Use C header file
- --includedir=DIRECTORY
- Directory used to include the C header file
- -h, --internal-header=FILE
- Output internal C header file
- --internal-vapi=FILE
- Output vapi with internal api
- --fast-vapi
- Output vapi without performing symbol resolution
- --use-fast-vapi
- Use --fast-vapi output during this compile
- --vapi-comments
- Include comments in generated vapi
- --deps
- Write make-style dependency information to this file
- --symbols=FILE
- Output symbols file
- -c, --compile
- Compile but do not link
- -o, --output=FILE
- Place output in file FILE
- -g, --debug
- Produce debug information
- --thread
- Enable multithreading support
- --enable-mem-profiler
- Enable GLib memory profiler
- -D, --define=SYMBOL...
- Define SYMBOL
- --main=SYMBOL...
- Use SYMBOL as entry point
- --nostdpkg
- Do not include standard packages
- --disable-assert
- Disable assertions
- --enable-checking
- Enable additional run-time checks
- --enable-deprecated
- Enable deprecated features
- --hide-internal
- Hide symbols marked as internal
- --enable-experimental
- Enable experimental features
- --disable-warnings
- Disable warnings
- --fatal-warnings
- Treat warnings as fatal
- --disable-since-check
- Do not check whether used symbols exist in local packages
- --enable-experimental-non-null
- Enable experimental enhancements for non-null types
- --enable-gobject-tracing
- Enable GObject creation tracing
- --cc=COMMAND
- Use COMMAND as C compiler command
- -X, --Xcc=OPTION...
- Pass OPTION to the C compiler
- --pkg-config=COMMAND
- Use COMMAND as pkg-config command
- --dump-tree=FILE
- Write code tree to FILE
- --save-temps
- Keep temporary files
- --profile=PROFILE
- Use the given profile instead of the default
- -q, --quiet
- Do not print messages to the console
- -v, --verbose
- Print additional messages to the console
- --no-color
- Disable colored output
- --target-glib=MAJOR.MINOR
- Target version of glib for code generation
- --gresources=FILE...
- XML of gresources
- --enable-version-header
- Write vala build version in generated files
- --disable-version-header
- Do not write vala build version in generated files
FEATURES¶
Interfaces, properties, signals, foreach, lambda expressions, type inference for
local variables, generics, non-null types, assisted memory management,
exception handling
AUTHORS¶
J??rg Billeter, Raffaele Sandrini.
