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.

--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

HOMEPAGE AND BUG REPORT

http://www.vala-project.org/

AUTHOR

vapigen for Vala was written by Jürg Billeter <[email protected]> and Raffaele Sandrini <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Kumar Appaiah <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).