Vapigen-0.26 (1) Linux Manual Page

vapigen – generate a Vala API

Synopsis

vapigen SOURCE PKGBASE [OPTION]… [FILE]…

vapigen is a utility which generates Vala API (VAPI) files from GI files, which may be generated using the vala-gen-introspect(1) utility.

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

-?, –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

vapigen for Vala was written by Jürg Billeter <j@bitron.ch> and Raffaele Sandrini <rasa [at] gmx.ch>.

This manual page was written by Kumar Appaiah <akumar [at] ee.iitm.ac.in>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).