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GI-DECOMPILE-TYPELIB(1) General Commands Manual GI-DECOMPILE-TYPELIB(1)

NAME

gi-decompile-typelib - Typelib decompiler

SYNOPSIS

gi-decompile-typelib [OPTION…] TYPELIB [TYPELIB…]

DESCRIPTION

gi-decompile-typelib is a GIR decompiler, using the repository API. It generates GIR XML files from the compiled binary typelib format. The output will be written to standard output unless the --output is specified.

The binary typelib format stores a subset of the information available in GIR XML, so not all typelibs can be decompiled in this way, and the resulting GIR XML might be incomplete.

Normally, GIR XML should be generated from source code, headers and shared libraries using <g-ir-scanner(1)> instead of using this tool.

On Debian-derived systems, each architecture provides a version of gi-decompile-typelib prefixed with the DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE from dpkg-architecture(1), for example arm-linux-gnueabihf-gi-decompile-typelib. These architecture-prefixed names use appropriate search paths for the given architecture, and should be used when cross-compiling. Please see <file:///usr/share/doc/gobject-introspection/README.Debian.gz> for more details.

OPTIONS

Show help options.
Save the resulting output in FILENAME.
Add DIRECTORY to the search path for typelibs. This option can be used more than once. The first DIRECTORY on the command-line will be searched first (highest precedence).
Show all available information.
Show program’s version number and exit.

EXAMPLE

::
$ libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu # or /usr/lib64 or similar $ gi-decompile-typelib -o Gio-2.0.gir
Unexpected indentation.
$libdir/girepository-1.0/Gio-2.0.typelib


$ diff -u /usr/share/gir-1.0/Gio-2.0.gir Gio-2.0.gir


You will see that the original GIR XML contains much more information than the decompiled typelib.

BUGS

Report bugs at <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues>

HOMEPAGE AND CONTACT


<https://gi.readthedocs.io/>

AUTHORS

Matthias Clasen