vala-gen-introspect-0.36 - generate a GI file for GObject and glib based packages
vala-gen-introspect PKGNAME PKGBASE
VALA-GEN-INTROSPECT(1) User Commands 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 PKG- BASE 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 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html&product=vala HOMEPAGE OR CONTACT https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala 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 pack- ages/pango/pango.gi ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+-----------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Availability | developer/vala | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Stability | Pass-through volatile | +---------------+-----------------------+ SEE ALSO vapigen (1) NOTES This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://down- load.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.36/vala-0.36.0.tar.xz Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala. vala-gen-introspect 0.36.0 March 2017 VALA-GEN-INTROSPECT(1)