vapigen(1) Vala 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 pack‐
ages/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 ALSOvala-gen-introspect(1)HOMEPAGE AND BUG REPORT
http://www.vala-project.org/
AUTHOR
vapigen for Vala was written by Jürg Billeter <j@bitron.ch> and Raf‐
faele 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).
vala-0.8.0 13 April 2010 vapigen(1)
