vapigen-0.26 (1) Linux Manual Page
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
Homepage And Bug Report
Author
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).