NAME¶
vapigen - generate a Vala API
SYNOPSIS¶
vapigen SOURCE PKGBASE [
OPTION]... [
FILE]...
DESCRIPTION¶
vapigen is a utility which generates Vala API (VAPI) files from GI files,
which may be generated using the vala-gen-introspect(1) utility.
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
OPTIONS¶
- -?, --help
- Show help option
- --vapidir=DIRECTORY
- Look for package bindings in DIRECTORY.
- --girdir=DIRECTORY
- Look for GIR bindings in DIRECTORY.
- --metadatadir=DIRECTORY
- Look for GIR .metadata files in DIRECTORY.
- --pkg=PACKAGE
- Include binding for PACKAGE
- --library=NAME
- Specify library name as NAME
- -d, --directory=DIRECTORY
- Specify output directory as DIRECTORY
- --version
- Display version number and exit.
- -q, --quiet
- Do not print messages to the console
SEE ALSO¶
vala-gen-introspect(1)
HOMEPAGE AND BUG REPORT¶
http://www.vala-project.org/
AUTHOR¶
vapigen for Vala was written by Jürg Billeter <j@bitron.ch> and
Raffaele Sandrini <rasa@gmx.ch>.
This manual page was written by Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in>, for
the Debian project (but may be used by others).
