Re: [Vala] Errors trying to re-generate poppler-glib.vapi

[Al Thomas <astavale yahoo co uk>]

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: Francesco Poli <invernomuto paranoici org>
> Sent: Wednesday, 8 March 2017, 23:07
> Subject: [Vala] Errors trying to re-generate poppler-glib.vapi

> I am trying to re-generate poppler-glib.vapi from Poppler-0.18.gir with the following command-line:

>   $ vapigen --vapidir /usr/share/vala-0.34/vapi/ \
>     --pkg cairo --pkg gio-2.0 --library poppler-glib \
>     /usr/share/gir-1.0/Poppler-0.18.gir

> Unfortunately, I get the following errors:

>  Poppler-0.18.gir:5044.71-5044.71: error: The type name `Poppler.Backend.CAIRO.Surface' could not be found
>             <type name="cairo.Surface" c:type="cairo_surface_t*"/>


I'm not sure this will solve your exact problem, but there is some 

metadata that you should reference with your vapigen command:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/vala/tree/vapi/metadata/Poppler-0.18.metadata?h=0.34

Hope that helps,

Al