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6 vapigen - generate a Vala API
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9 vapigen SOURCE PKGBASE [OPTION]... [FILE]...
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12 vapigen is a utility which generates Vala API (VAPI) files from GI
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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‐
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26 -?, --help
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29 --vapidir=DIRECTORY
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33 Include binding for PACKAGE
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50 vapigen for Vala was written by Juerg Billeter <j@bitron.ch> and Raf‐
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53 This manual page was written by Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in>,
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