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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 its usage in Vala
for compiling to native code. PKGNAME is the pkg-config name of the
library and PKGBASE 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://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vala/issues

HOMEPAGE OR CONTACT

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala

AUTHORS

J??rg Billeter, Raffaele Sandrini.

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

SEE ALSO

vapigen (1)

gen-introspect 0.56.1 April 2022 VALA-GEN-INTROSPECT(1)