mmgirgenerator

mmgirgenerator is a new generator for gtkmm projects. In constrast to h2def, which is currently used for generating .defs files, mmgirgenerator generates code based on information coming from GObjec-Introspection GIR files.

Build instructions

Requirements:

• glibmm-2.4
• libxml++-3.0

CMake build

$ git clone git@github.com:loganek/mmgirgenerator.git
$ cd mmgirgenerator
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

Generate definitions

 $ ./src/mmgirgenerator --help
Usage:
  mmgirgenerator [OPTION...] [GIR_PACKAGE...]

Help Options:
  -h, --help                      Show help options

Application Options:
  -g, --gir-path=PATH             Path to GIR directory
  --namespace=NAMESPACE           Processed namespace
  --namespace-mapping=MAPPING     Namespace mapping, MAPPING format: from_namespace:to_namespace[,...]
  --print-vfunc                   Print definitions of virtual methods
  --print-enum                    Print definitions of enums and flags
  --print-signal                  Print definitions of signals
  --print-property                Print definitions of properties
  --print-function                Print definitions of functions

Example usage

Command below generates definitions for enumerations and flags from packages: GModule-2.0, GLib-2.0 and GObject-2.0.

./src/mmgirgenerator GModule-2.0 GLib-2.0 GObject-2.0 \
                     --namespace=GLib \
                     --namespace-mapping=GModule:GLib,GObject:GLib \
                     --print-enum

Contributing

• Open issue
• Create pull request

Licensing

This project is developed under LGPL license. See LICENSE file for more details.