Re: embedding G-I into apps

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi,

Johan Dahlin schrieb:
> Colin Walters wrote:
> > (Using this list for gobject-introspection development for now,
> > probably ignore if you're not jdahlin =))
> >
> > I was looking a bit today about applying our shiny new introspection
> > tool to Totem, with an eye to eliminating the manual binding
> > infrastructure, and more generally figure out how existing C
> > applications can use g-i (and something like Alex' GScript API) to
> > have a nicer way to embed Python or Spidermonkey.
>
> As far as I can see it there are two options:
> A) dlopen the executable (not portable)
> B) create a temporary shared library
> C) execute the scanner inside the application (as you suggested)
>
> Discarding A, as we want to be portable. I've always thought about using
> a temporary shared library to solve this particular problem, but the one 
> you suggested appears to be better in many ways.

I ususally use a libtool convinience library that has everything except main() 
and the option parsing. Then I can link my unit tests to this and can also use 
it for gtk-doc (yes I document my app classes too). The scanner could use this 
as well.

Stefan