Re: [Vala] Mixing C with vala

[Abderrahim Kitouni <a kitouni gmail com>]

Hello,

Le mer 23 sept. 2015 23:21, Daniel Brendle <grindhold skarphed org> a
écrit :
> The second gist is a gist that contains a main.vala, and a
> gereon-page.c and a gereon-page.h . those files are generated by vala
> with the -C and -h-flags. Additionally there is a gereon.vapi that
> describes the methods of Page towards the vala-compiler. This example
> does not work beacause the unreferencing methods in the C-stage of
> main.vala is "gereon_page_unref()" instead of "g_object_unref()". Why
> is that?
>
> https://gist.github.com/grindhold/f2a39dab2dd1c172b355
>
> Thanks in advance. I'd really like to understand what happens.

The problem is the vapi. It should be
public class Page : GLib.Object {

One more thing: You don't need to keep the Vala generated code and modify
it; a better solution would be to declare the methods you want to implement
in C as extern and implement them in another file

HTH,
Abderrahim