Check this project https://gitlab.com/mnauw/cppgir
Worth checking upfront. On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 18:19 +0200, Emmanuel Gil Peyrot wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 04:53:21PM +0200, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote: > > On 2020-04-15 01:51, Emmanuel Gil Peyrot wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > In Inkscape[1] I’ve been trying to replace[2] both GtkSpell and > > > aspell > > > with gspell[3], but I couldn’t find any gspellmm library. > > > > > > I’ve been looking through your mm libraries to see how to > > > generate it, > > > but it seems you write almost all of the code, instead of > > > generating it > > > from gobject-introspection like in other languages, is there any > > > reason > > > for that? > > I don't know for sure, but I think gobject-introspection did not > > exist when > > glibmm and friends were first created. Then no one has taken the > > time to > > learn gobject-introspection and to convert everything. I think > > there once > > was an attempt to generate glibmm from gobject-introspection, but > > it was not > > finished. > > Thanks, do you have a link to this unfinished attempt? It might make > future maintainance much less costly than doing everything manually, > especially with the changing APIs surrounding GTK 4. > > > > I’d be interested in creating such a library if no one else > > > already has > > > something, do you have any pointer for where to start from? The > > > API > > > surface is small enough I could do it from scratch, but it would > > > most > > > likely integrate better taking your advices. :) > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > [1] https://inkscape.org/ > > > [2] https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/1756 > > > [3] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gspell > > > > > > > > There are some instructions in the gtkmm tutorial, appendix G: > > https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/stable/chapter-wrapping-c-libraries.html.en > > . > > It's not completely up-to-date. It assumes that you will build with > > Autotools. I suppose you prefer Meson. > > Of course I do. ^^ > > > mm-common contains the skeletonmm directory with files you can > > start with. > > The skeletonmm project contains files for building with Meson. If > > you decide > > to use it, I recommend that you clone mm-common from the git repo > > with the > > latest commits. > > Thanks, I’ll have a look at this method. :) > > _______________________________________________ > gtkmm-list mailing list > gtkmm-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
