Re: Bindings for a 3rd-party library

[Daniel Kasak <d j kasak dk gmail com>]

OK I'm returning to this after a long period of not doing anything ...

This part does *something:

Glib::Object::Introspection->setup(
    basename => 'GtkFlow'
  , version  => '0.2'
  , package  => 'GtkFlow'
);

 ... because if I don't adjust my LD_LIBRARY_PATH, I get errors about
missing libraries. When I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to where I installed
libgtkflow, the errors disappear.

However, that's as far as I get. The next part:

GtkFlow::Source->new()
GtkFlow::Sink->new()

 ... gives errors like:


On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> Hi;
>
> On 22 May 2015 at 12:11, Daniel Kasak <d j kasak dk gmail com> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:37 PM, "Torsten Schönfeld" <kaffeetisch gmx de> wrote:
> > > "Daniel Kasak" <d j kasak dk gmail com>:
> > > > I'm wondering ... how much work is involved in getting Perl bindings
> > > > for this library working? I guess it would depend on how it's written?
> > > > Or does the introspection that comes along with gtk3 make it generally
> > > > an easy task?
> > >
> > > Something like this should get you started:
> > >
> > >   Glib::Object::Introspection->setup (
> > >     basename => 'GtkFlow',
> > >     version => '0.2',
> > >     package => 'GtkFlow'); # or whatever package you prefer
> > >
> > >   GtkFlow::Source->new (...)
> > >   GtkFlow::Sink->new (...)
> >
> > Aha. Thanks :)
>
> Sadly, the library is written in Vala and uses Gee, which means that
> some of its functions — especially the ones that deal with collections
> — will not be introspectable, and thus will not be available in any
> language *except* Vala.
>
> Ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
>
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