Thank you very much. Now I'm really convinced that I will need to use gir files to extract the info I need. On Dec 2, 2013 7:37 PM, "Colin Walters" <walt...@verbum.org> wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 22:35 +0100, Juan Rafael García Blanco wrote: > > > 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? > > No, because the typelib doesn't have the original argument types. For > example, a "gulong" argument is represented by GI_TYPE_TAG_INT32 on 32 > bit architectures and LLP64, and GI_TYPE_TAG_INT64 on LP64. > > You should use the .gir files instead; the "ctype" may sometimes be > useful for your purposes, but note that things like GObject signals have > no original "ctype", so in the end you'll have to carry a .gir -> ctype > code mapping anyways. > > This last bit is unfortunately hard - g-i is fairly strongly oriented > towards assisting bindings for higher level languages, and not the other > way around. > >
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