External Vala Bindings

Here's a list of some bindings which are not delivered along with Vala and of projects which officially provide Vala bindings. Add your own bindings by registering to the wiki and attaching your .vapi.

• libmemcached.vapi Bindings for libmemcached

• Application Indicators Replacement for the notification area. Bindings are for adding applications to the panel.

• The Brick Engine A fast, simple, and powerful lo-fi game engine, with .vapi available here: brick.vapi

• Avant Window Navigator GTK+-based dock. Bindings (added as of version 0.2.4) are for building applets via libawn.

• couchdb-glib GLib-based CouchDB client library. couchdb-glib-1.0.vapi , Launchpad bzr branch

• Gtk Source Completion a completion library for GtkTextView component gtksourcecompletion-1.0.vapi

• GtkSpell A spell-checking addon for GTK's TextView widget. gtkspell-2.0.vapi Other GtkSpell vapi

• GUPnP GObject UPnP library.

• ige-mac-integration Mac OS X GTK+ Integration ige-mac-integration.vapi igedemo.vala

• liblo Lightweight OSC protocol implementation.

• libowl-av Audio/Video widget library.

• libgconf-bridge GConf-GObject bridging library.

• libguniqueapp A Library for GNOME Single-Instance Applications libguniqueapp.vapi

• libgcrypt a general purpose cryptographic library gcrypt.vapi

• libindicate, Ubuntu's library for creating and manipulating panel indicators

• LLVM

• OpenGL Cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics.

  • GtkGLExt: gtkglext-1.0.vapi OpenGL extension to GTK+ 2.0.

  • GL: gl.vapi OpenGL API (Alternative: GL-1.0.gir or gl.vapi. These bindings are generated from OpenGL spec, the source is located on Github.)

  • GLU: glu.vapi OpenGL Utility Library

  • GLUT: glut.vapi OpenGL Utility Toolkit

  • GLX: glx.vapi OpenGL Extension to the X Window System

  • GLFW: libglfw.vapi Free and simple multi-platform library for creating OpenGL contexts

• Seed, JavaScriptCore binding for GNOME

• SFML, Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

• telepathy-glib (configure with --enable-vala-bindings)

• xmms2 xmms2 client library bindings, available as a part of the Abraca xmms2 client: xmms2-client.vapi xmms2-client-glib.deps xmms2-client-glib.vapi (GIT repository)

• Xfce

• OpenMAX IL Bellagio

• Midgard2 Midgard2 Content Repository midgard2.vapi

• Infinote Collaboration protocol 0.5 vala bindings (Infinote Website)

• libzmq.vapi ZeroMQ 2.1.4 bindings (https://github.com/lgunsch/zmq-vala, http://www.zeromq.org/)

• opencl.vapi - OpenCL bindings (tested with clover)

• gdbm GNU dbm database (http://www.gnu.org/s/gdbm/)

• snappy.vapi - Snappy, fast compression library from Google.

• libgit2 - a linkable library for git

• libffi - A Portable Foreign Function Interface Library

• posix-regex - Regular Expression Matching (POSIX.1-2001)

• cpufreq - interface to library from package Userspace utilities for the Linux kernel cpufreq subsystem

• sensors - publically accessible functions provided by the sensors library

• transmission - vapi for popular torrent client

• luajit - vapi for LuaJIT

• oniguruma - vapi for famous regex library

• Ruby.vapi - use ruby from vala

• GDA bindings - Bindings for GNU Database Access library

• Augeas.vapi - VAPI for http://augeas.net/ Generic configuration management API.

• tcc.vapi - vapi for tcc

• json-rpc - JSON RPC for vala

• https://github.com/dsego/vapi - Complete or partial bindings for: Aubio 0.4, KissFFT 1.2, PortAudio v19, Libsamplerate 0.1, Libsndfile 1.0

• devhelp-vapi - bindings for devhelp

There's a project named 'vala-vapis' which aims to collect all those unofficial vapi files:

•  hg clone http://hg.youterm.com/vala-vapis 

There is a tutorial for creating bindings to GLib/GObject based libs.

Getting your bindings into Vala

Other than adding the bindings to this page you might want to ask for its inclusion in Vala. If that's the case, these are some useful tips you can follow to get your bindings in easier:

• The actual vala-gen-introspect could potentially work also with non-glib projects. If it works for your library try using it to generate the bindings automatically. For examples about metadata and custom.vala just look under vapi/packages of the Vala source tree.

• Make sure your bindings are complete and working in all its parts.

• Use the Vala coding style as much as you can (i.e. CamelCaseForSymbols, underscore_variables_and_methods, UPPER_CASE_CONSTANTS_AND_ENUMVALUES).

• File a bug under the https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=vala and attach your .vapi (or a patch from git if possible).

• Once your bindings are accepted and if you keep being interested in your bindings, please propose yourself as maintainer of the bindings.