Alejandro, Is there a reason to create a .vapi file? Couldn't your vala developers just use the .gir file? AFAIK, that is the preferred method for binding to vala if you are already writing gobject libs.
-august. > Hi, vala-list. > Before anything else, I have to say I'm new to Vala and also to > vapigen usage. I've been working on a library which uses GObject and GTK > + and is written in C, now other developers are going to use this > library to write an application, but they will do it using Vala, so I'm > currently binding it using GObjectIntrospecton and vapigen, both > integrated with the GNU Autotools. > > The directory structure of the library is composed by 4 directories, > each of which contains an alredy generated .gir file. I've managed to > integrate GObjectInstrospection in the project, and right now I'm > dealing with vapigen (whose documentation about integration with > Autotools doesn't exist, currently). > > The 4 directories have an horizontal dependency so the .gir of the > first one is needed to generate the .gir (and .vapi) of the next one and > so on with all of them, all being in the same level of the build tree. > > To generate the .girs I've used the --include-uninstalled option to > include the previously generated .gir file of the project. Now, when the > build system tries to run vapigen to generate a .vapi that depends on > another part of the library, it fails. > > The call to vapigen is something like this: > $(VAPIGEN) --pkg glib-2.0 --pkg gobject-2.0 --pkg gvn-0.1 -d > $(vapidir) --vapidir=$(vapidir) --library foo-0.1 Foo-0.1.gir > > The .vapi file of the "gvn" package is alredy generated (and put in > the directory specified via the --vapidir option) at this point, as well > as the .gir of the current package. > > And this is the error it produces: > error: Package `Gvn-0.1' not found in specified Vala API directories > or GObject-Introspection GIR directories > > I guess it has something to do with the package not being installed, > but I couldn't find a way to tell it to vapigen. However that's just a > guess, so I don't really know what i'm doing wrong and/or how to solve > this. Can anyone help me with it? > > Thanks in advance! > > Regards, > Alex > > PS: sorry if my english is a mess, if something is not clear tell me and > I'll try to rewrite it. > > _______________________________________________ > vala-list mailing list > vala-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list -- http://aug.ment.org GPG: 0A8D 2BC7 243D 57D0 469D 9736 C557 458F 003E 6952 _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
