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Updated version of https://sourceforge.net/p/lazarus-ccr/svn/HEAD/tree/applications/gobject-introspection

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gir2pascal

This is my personal fork of the gir2pascal utility, a program to convert the GIR metadata format (= XML files) used by [GObject introspection][] into usable Pascal source code, suitable for generating corresponding language bindings.

The original is part of the Lazarus Code and Component Repository ([lazarus-ccr][], [wiki article][wiki-ccr]), see applications/gobject-introspection/.

I started working on this after I found a number of problems and shortcomings of the original gir2pascal, when trying to process the API description of [Poppler] version 0.82 (Poppler-0.18.gir), which also includes a number of dependencies (namely GObject-2.0.gir, GLib-2.0.gir, Gio-2.0.gir and cairo-1.0.gir). It's faily obvious that gir2pascal wasn't updated for quite some time, and it struggled with the current GIR format (e.g. not knowing about and thus showing numerous warnings for the `` element). It also failed to handle the 'opaque' data types that an up-to-date GLib-2.0.gir seems to be using for its mutex locking.

Note: My changes were developed and tested using [fpc][] 3.0.4 and the default *.gir files that [Gentoo][] Linux installs for poppler-0.82 and glib-2.60.7. The modified gir2pascal handles Poppler-0.18.gir and all its dependencies just fine, and the resulting *.pas files compile without errors. However, because I later decided to take a different approach (not using Poppler), I haven't checked if the generated API bindings are actually usable - so consider that part untested...

You can create a (set of) patch(es) from my branch, which should apply cleanly to the current (r6630) 'upstream' repository folder.

pascal
git format-patch master..nitehawk

License

This project builds upon the original Lazarus CCR version and is thus intended to follow the same licensing principles. For the gobject-introspection folder this seems to be GPL v2, as referenced in a number of file headers.

[GObject introspection]: https://gi.readthedocs.io/ [lazarus-ccr]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus-ccr/ [wiki-ccr]: https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus-ccr_SourceForge_repository [poppler]: https://poppler.freedesktop.org/ [fpc]: https://freepascal.org/ [Gentoo]: https://gentoo.org/