On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 13:12 +0100, Jason Scurtu wrote:
> Hi @All,
> 
> I am new to vala programming, currently I am toying with the language
> and I must say I am impressed and I am having alot of fun.
> I am currently looking for a way to use a library that was written in
> plain C within Vala. The library is lib5250 from the tn5250 project.
> I want to include all .c and .h files in my project and access the
> functions from Vala.
> How to do that and what options I have? I read about creating a .vapi
> file, but I haven't found any clear documentation or tutorials that gave
> me the ahha effect.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Vala/LegacyBindings

I'm not sure it's something you really learn by reading...  you pretty
much need to pick a library (which you have) and just work your way
through it.  If you have specific questions, you can ask here or on
#vala on irc.gnome.org.  To get you started:

        [CCode (cheader_filename = "tn5250/tn5250.h")]
        namespace Tn5250 {
          [CCode (destroy_function = "tn5250_buffer_free")]
          public struct Buffer {
            [CCode (array_length_cname = "len")]
            public uint8[]? data;
            public int allocated;
        
            public Buffer ();
        
            public void append_byte (uint8 b);
            public void append_data (uint8[] data);
            public void log (string prefix);
          }
        }


-Evan

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