Re: [Vala] Writing binding for non-GLib library using FILE *

[Al Thomas <astavale yahoo co uk>]

> From: Gergely Polonkai <gergely polonkai eu>
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 April 2017, 16:20
> Subject: [Vala] Writing binding for non-GLib library using FILE *

> I’m trying to create a binding for libjwt, and one of its functions use
> FILE * pointer to save a JWT token to a file. Reading [2] makes me think I
> can use FileStream here, but vala complains:


> libjwt.vapi:77.28-77.37: error: The type name `FileStream' could not be
> found


FileStream is part of the GLib namespace. I think you either need to make
that explicit, so GLib.FileStream. Alternatively you can include the
namespace in your VAPI by adding:

using GLib;

at the beginning of the VAPI.