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GObject Introspection
GIR & Typelib formats
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FIXME
Tools
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Three tools are shipped with GObject Introspection:
- g-ir-compile, a typelib compiler. It converts one or more GIR files
into one or more typelib blobs. It can either emit the raw typelib
blob or C code (--code).
- g-ir-generate, an GIR generator, using the repository API. It generates
GIR files from binary typelib which can be in a shared object, or a raw
typelib blob.
- g-ir-scanner, a tool which generates GIR XML files by parsing headers
and introspecting GObject based libraries.
API library
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There's also a C based library called libgirepository which provides
an API to access to the typelib metadata. It also contains an API to
invoke functions, given the function info object. The implementation is
based on libffi (3.0 or higher of libffi required, can be found at
http://sourceware.org/libffi).
There are a number of GIR test files in tests/, and a script to do
roundtrip tests (GIR -> typelib -> GIR).
Helping out
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The introspection framework needs a lot more work, see TODO.
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