Re: [Vala] VAPI bindings for external lib

[Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado <gaguilar aguilardelgado com>]

Hi Michael,

I missed this one. Thank you.

El 17/11/14 a las 16:07, Michael Catanzaro escribió:
> On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 14:28 +0100, Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm modifiying babobab to support a ceph cluster. And want to do add
> > several tools to position files on OSDs, show fragemntation of
> > underlaying filesystems, etc. Maybe this will generate other tool, but
> > for now just modifying.
> >
> > The problem is that I cannot access directly to librados, libcephfs
> > libraries from vala. Ehem, I can do it by just linking but figuring out
> > what's the best way to do it.
> >
> > I suppose that creating a binding is the best. I saw some tutorials but
> > all require that library already uses GObject system that's not the case.
> >
> > So, should I create a wrapping object lib, and then generate bindings
> > from there?
> >
> > Or should I do another way? I'm thinking about just adding dep and call
> > it from vala like c. But don't know what's the best way to proceed.
> >
> > Best regards
> There's a lot of documentation on this here:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/LegacyBindings