1 .TH vala-gen-introspect 1 "26 October 2007" "vala-0.1.5" "Vala"
2 .IX vala-gen-introspect
4 vala-gen-introspect \- generate a GI file for GObject and glib based packages
6 .B vala-gen-introspect \fIPKGNAME\fP \fIPKGBASE\fP
10 is a utility which generates GI files from GObject and glib
11 based packages. It can be used in combination with vapigen(1) to
12 generate an API for Vala, and allow it's usage in Vala for compiling
13 to native code. \fIPKGNAME\fP is the pkg-config name of the library
14 and \fIPKGBASE\fP specifies the base directory for that package.
18 After compilation, the following command generates a GI for pango:
19 .B vala-gen-introspect pango packages/pango
23 This command currenly takes no command line options.
28 vala-gen-introspect for Vala was written by Juerg Billeter <j@bitron.ch> and
29 Raffaele Sandrini <rasa@gmx.ch>.
31 This manual page was written by Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in>,
32 for the Debian project (but may be used by others).