Welcome to project girtobac, a tool to generate FreeBASIC (FB) header files for libraries based on GOject-Introspection, which is a middleware layer between C libraries (using GObject) and language bindings. The C library can be scanned at compile time and generate a metadata file, in addition to the actual native C library. girtobac can read this metadata and automatically provide FB bindings to call into the C library.

girtobac is the first approach to connect the FreeBasic programming language to this tool-chain for easy creating and up-dating FreeBasic header files of GObject based libraries (ie. like GTK, GDA, GooCanvas, ...).

The package is hosted at GitHub and it contains

the girtobac source code in folder src
the header GLib-2.0.bi in folder Gir
an example input file GLib-2.0.gir in folder example
several configuration files (*.GirToBac) in folder Gir
the configuration files to build the documentation in folder doc
the documentation context in .md files in root folder
CMake scripts to build the targets all, doc, doc_htm, doc_pdf

Find the online documentation at http://users.freebasic-portal.de/tjf/Projekte/girtobac/doc/html/.

(This documentation is generated by the Doxygen generator from FB source code by fbdoc filtering.)

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

To get the licence text refer to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110- 1301, USA.