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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 Jurg 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)