1vapigen(1)                           Vala                           vapigen(1)
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NAME

6       vapigen - generate a Vala API
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SYNOPSIS

9       vapigen SOURCE PKGBASE [OPTION]... [FILE]...
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DESCRIPTION

12       vapigen  is  a  utility  which  generates Vala API (VAPI) files from GI
13       files, which may be generated using the vala-gen-introspect(1) utility.
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EXAMPLES

17       After compilation, the following command generates a GI for pango:
18              vala-gen-introspect pango packages/pango
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20       This can then be converted to a Vala API as follows:
21              vapigen  --pkg  cairo  --vapidir   .   --library   pango   pack‐
22              ages/pango/pango.gi
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OPTIONS

26       -?, --help
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38       -d, --directory=DIRECTORY
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SEE ALSO

49       vala-gen-introspect(1)
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HOMEPAGE AND BUG REPORT

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

57       vapigen  for  Vala  was written by Jürg Billeter <j@bitron.ch> and Raf‐
58       faele Sandrini <rasa@gmx.ch>.
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60       This manual page was written by Kumar  Appaiah  <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in>,
61       for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
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65vala-0.8.0                       13 April 2010                      vapigen(1)