vala-gen-introspect-0.56 - Man Page
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 its 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
Bugs
Homepage or Contact
Authors
J??rg Billeter, Raffaele Sandrini.
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
See Also
Referenced By
The man page vala-gen-introspect(1) is an alias of vala-gen-introspect-0.56(1).