What are .gir files?

[Jan Holzhueter]

Am 04.11.13 17:51, schrieb Dagobert Michelsen:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I am fiddling with a part of GTK (gtksourceview) which was a leftover from Phil
> and I get the following error during the build:
> 
>> /opt/csw/bin/g-ir-scanner  -I.. --namespace=GtkSource --nsversion=2.0 --libtool="/bin/bash ../libtool" --pkg=gtksourceview-2.0 --include=Gtk-2.0   --library=libgtksourceview-2.0.la    gtksourcebuffer.h gtksourcecompletioncontext.h gtksourcecompletion.h gtksourcecompletioninfo.h gtksourcecompletionitem.h gtksourcecompletionproposal.h gtksourcecompletionprovider.h gtksourcegutter.h gtksourceiter.h gtksourcelanguage.h gtksourcelanguagemanager.h gtksourcemark.h gtksourceprintcompositor.h gtksourcestyle.h gtksourcestylescheme.h gtksourcestyleschememanager.h gtksourceundomanager.h gtksourceview.h gtksourcebuffer.c gtksourcecompletion.c gtksourcecompletioncontext.c gtksourcecompletioninfo.c gtksourcecompletionitem.c gtksourcecompletionmodel.c gtksourcecompletionproposal.c gtksourcecompletionprovider.c gtksourcecompletionutils.c gtksourcecontextengine.c gtksourceengine.c gtksourcegutter.c gtksourceiter.c gtksourcelanguage.c gtksourcelanguagemanager.c gtksourcelanguage-parser-1.c gtksource
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anguage-parser-2.c gtksourcemark.c gtksourceprintcompositor.c gtksourcestyle.c gtksourcestylescheme.c gtksourcestyleschememanager.c gtksourceundomanager.c gtksourceundomanagerdefault.c gtksourceview.c gtksourceview-i18n.c gtksourceview-utils.c gtktextregion.c libgtksourceview-2.0.la --output GtkSource-2.0.gir
>> Couldn't find include 'Gtk-2.0.gir' (search path: ['gir-1.0', '/opt/csw/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/share/gir-1.0', '/opt/csw/share/gir-1.0'])
>> /opt/csw/share/gobject-introspection-1.0/Makefile.introspection:150: recipe for target 'GtkSource-2.0.gir' failed
> 
> Rafi: Does this need to be added to GTK while you are at it?


Turn off intreospection or what is called. It never worked :)


Greetings
Jan