valac-0.26 (1) Linux Manual Page
valac – compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files
Synopsis
valac [OPTION]… [FILE]…
Description
Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.
valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source code.
Options
–help–vapidir=DIRECTORY…- Look for package bindings in DIRECTORY
–girdir=DIRECTORY…- Look for .gir files in DIRECTORY
–metadatadir=DIRECTORY…- Look for GIR .metadata files in DIRECTORY
–pkg=PACKAGE…- Include binding for PACKAGE
–vapi=FILE- Output VAPI file name
–library=NAME- Library name
–gir=NAME–VERSION.gir- GObject-Introspection repository file name
–gresources=FILE…- GResources XML file name
-b, –basedir=DIRECTORY- Base source directory
-d, –directory=DIRECTORY- Output directory
–version- Display version number
–api-version- Display API version number
-C, –ccode- Output C code
-H, –header=FILE- Output C header file
–use-header- Use C header file
–includedir=DIRECTORY- Directory used to include the C header file
-h, –internal-header=FILE- Output internal C header file
–internal-vapi=FILE- Output vapi with internal api
–symbols=FILE- Output symbols file
-c, –compile- Compile but do not link
-o, –output=FILE- Place output in file FILE
-g, –debug- Produce debug information
–thread- Enable multithreading support
–enable-mem-profiler- Enable GLib memory profiler
-D, –define=SYMBOL…- Define SYMBOL
–main=SYMBOL…- Use SYMBOL as entry point
–nostdpkg- Do not include standard packages
–disable-assert- Disable assertions
–enable-checking- Enable additional run-time checks
–enable-deprecated- Enable deprecated features
–enable-experimental- Enable experimental features
–disable-warnings- Disable warnings
–fatal-warnings- Treat warnings as fatal
–enable-experimental-non-null- Enable experimental enhancements for non-null types
–cc=COMMAND- Use COMMAND as C compiler command
-X, –Xcc=OPTION…- Pass OPTION. to the C compiler
–dump-tree=FILE- Write code tree to FILE
–save-temps- Keep temporary files
–profile=PROFILE- Use the given profile instead of the default
-q, –quiet- Do not print messages to the console
-v, –verbose- Print additional messages to the console
–target-glib=MAJOR.MINOR- Target version of glib for code generation
–enable-version-header- Write vala build version in generated files
–disable-version-header- Do not write vala build version in generated files
Features
Interfaces, properties, signals, foreach, lambda expressions, type inference for local variables, generics, non-null types, assisted memory management, exception handling
Homepage And Bug Report
Authors
Jürg Billeter, Raffaele Sandrini.
Man page written to conform with Debian by Marc-Andre Lureau.