Re: Bindings for a 3rd-party library

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

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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