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), 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 <source-position> 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.
git format-patch master..nitehawk
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.