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
              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


SEE ALSO
       vala-gen-introspect(1)


HOMEPAGE AND BUG REPORT
       http://www.vala-project.org/


AUTHOR
       vapigen for Vala was written by JA1/4rg 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).



vala-0.8.0                       13 April 2010                      vapigen(1)
