vala (1)

NAME

valac - compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files

SYNOPSIS

valac [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

Vala is a programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.

valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates

Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source code.

Usage:

valac [OPTION?] FILE... - Vala Compiler

Help Options:

-?, --help

Show help options

Application Options:

--vapidir=,DIRECTORY/...

Look for package bindings in DIRECTORY

--girdir=,DIRECTORY/...

Look for .gir files in DIRECTORY

--metadatadir=,DIRECTORY/...

Look for GIR .metadata files in DIRECTORY

--pkg=,PACKAGE/...

Include binding for PACKAGE

--vapi=,FILE/

Output VAPI file name

--library=,NAME/

Library name

--shared-library=,NAME/

Shared library name used in generated gir

--gir=,NAME-VERSION/.gir

GObject-Introspection repository file name

-b, --basedir=,DIRECTORY/

Base source directory

-d, --directory=,DIRECTORY/

Change output directory from current working directory

--version

Display version number

--api-version

Display API version number

-C, --ccode

Output C code

-H, --header=,FILE/

Output C header file

--use-header

Use C header file

--includedir=,DIRECTORY/

Directory used to include the C header file

-h, --internal-header=,FILE/

Output internal C header file

--internal-vapi=,FILE/

Output vapi with internal api

--fast-vapi

Output vapi without performing symbol resolution

--use-fast-vapi

Use --fast-vapi output during this compile

--vapi-comments

Include comments in generated vapi

--deps

Write make-style dependency information to this file

--symbols=,FILE/

Output symbols file

-c, --compile

Compile but do not link

-o, --output=,FILE/

Place output in file FILE

-g, --debug

Produce debug information

--thread

Enable multithreading support (DEPRECATED AND IGNORED)

--enable-mem-profiler

Enable GLib memory profiler

-D, --define=,SYMBOL/...

Define SYMBOL

--main=,SYMBOL/...

Use SYMBOL as entry point

--nostdpkg

Do not include standard packages

--disable-assert

Disable assertions

--enable-checking

Enable additional run-time checks

--enable-deprecated

Enable deprecated features

--hide-internal

Hide symbols marked as internal

--enable-experimental

Enable experimental features

--disable-warnings

Disable warnings

--fatal-warnings

Treat warnings as fatal

--disable-since-check

Do not check whether used symbols exist in local packages

--enable-experimental-non-null

Enable experimental enhancements for non-null types

--enable-gobject-tracing

Enable GObject creation tracing

--cc=,COMMAND/

Use COMMAND as C compiler command

-X, --Xcc=,OPTION/...

Pass OPTION to the C compiler

--pkg-config=,COMMAND/

Use COMMAND as pkg-config command

--dump-tree=,FILE/

Write code tree to FILE

--save-temps

Keep temporary files

--profile=,PROFILE/

Use the given profile instead of the default

-q, --quiet

Do not print messages to the console

-v, --verbose

Print additional messages to the console

--no-color

Disable colored output

--target-glib=,MAJOR/.MINOR

Target version of glib for code generation

--gresources=,FILE/...

XML of gresources

--gresourcesdir=,DIRECTORY/...

Look for resources in DIRECTORY

--enable-version-header

Write vala build version in generated files

--disable-version-header

Do not write vala build version in generated files

BUGS

bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html&product=vala

HOMEPAGE OR CONTACT

wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala

FEATURES

Interfaces, properties, signals, foreach, lambda expressions, type inference for local variables, generics, non-null types, assisted memory management, exception handling

AUTHORS

J??rg Billeter, Raffaele Sandrini.