Thank you very much for your reply; I see it more clear now. Please find my comments inlined.
On 01 Dec 2013, at 20:46, Colin Walters <walt...@verbum.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 19:43 +0100, Juan Rafael García Blanco wrote: > >> I’m trying to generate automatic bindings for gobject-introspected libraries >> for a compiled language. > > Compiled as in C/C++, so you want e.g. "GtkWidget *" for arguments of > type Gtk.Widget? Reversing g-ir-scanner is easy for the basic cases, > but gets nontrivial with stuff like inout arrays. Exactly, compiled as in C/C++. I’ve not reached the point in where I need to handle arrays. > >> Now I’m the need of generating method signatures, but I couldn’t find a way >> to get a string representation >> for return and argument types. > > You'll have to clarify exactly what you want to do with a string > representation. Sorry, I used a confusing expression. By string representation I meant exactly what you mentioned above: "GtkWidget *" for Gtk.Widget (pointer). I meant a string representation from the point of view of the language I’m trying to generate bindings for; that is, actual code in the target language. > >> Once I get the corresponding GITypeInfo I don’t know how to proceed. >> I would like to get a pointer to the GIObjectInfo, GIEnumInfo, > > Call g_base_info_get_interface() to get the target type, then > g_base_info_get_type() will tell you whether it's e.g. a > GI_INFO_TYPE_ENUM, a GI_INFO_TYPE_OBJECT, etc. After I read this I tried something and I think that I misunderstood what get_interface means. I thought that interface stood for actual gobject interfaces; but now I see that it’s also applicable to standard classes. And the GType tag refers to exactly that, GType. > > The gjs and pygobject git repositories should be useful references. > > Yes, I’m aware of these GI users; but here I’m in doubt: since I’m trying to generate ‘static’ bindings (i.e. for a compiled language), is girepository (i.e. the gobject-introspection library that interacts with typelibs) suitable for my needs? Or should I rather use GIR files directly and build my own parser? I’ve been told that using the gobject-introspection library and therefore typelib files could make my bindings platform dependent. I’m not sure of this; I think that I can easily overcome the platform dependent parts of typlibs. So this is the question that I’m a little bit afraid of doing myself: is it right to use the gobject-introspction library to generate bindings for a compiled language? Thank you very much. Regards, Juan. _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
