Build

To generate the bindings locally execute the following commands in a terminal. Make sure to initialise submodules with --recursive otherwise the gir-files directory will not be loaded properly.

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/gircore/gir.core.git
$ cd gir.core/src
$ dotnet fsi GenerateLibs.fsx
$ dotnet build GirCore.Libs.slnf

If you want to clean the Libs folder of all generated files run:

$ dotnet fsi CleanLibs.fsx

Native Libraries

The project includes a C library (GirTest) which is used for testing the generator.

This requires some additional dependencies:

  • C compiler
  • meson
  • gobject-introspection (for Ubuntu, the libgirepository1.0-dev package is required)

To compile the GirTest native library, run:

$ dotnet fsi GenerateGirTestLib.fsx

Then, to include the GirTest library when generating the bindings, run:

$ dotnet fsi GenerateLibs.fsx GirTest-0.1.gir

To compile all the generated bindings, including GirTest, run:

$ dotnet build

The GirCore.sln solution contains all libraries, including GirTest. The GirCore.Libs.slnf solution filter excludes the GirTest library's bindings and its unit tests, which can be useful if you have not built the native library.

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