vapigen(1)
NAME
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.
- --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.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
vapigen for Vala was written by Juerg Billeter <j@bitron.ch> and Raffaele Sandrini <rasa@gmx.ch>.
- This manual page was written by Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).