Re: [gobject-introspection] Multiple libraries in the 'shared-library' parameter

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Alan <alan mcgovern gmail com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm just looking at generating bindings for .NET and I've hit an
> issue. For the .NET bindings you need to supply the native library
> name along with the function to invoke. I've noticed that the gir
> format likes to specify multiple library names in the shared-library
> parameter, for example in Gtk-3.0.gir I have:
> shared-library="libgtk-x11-3.0.so.0,libgdk-x11-3.0.so.0"

Leaving aside the discussions ongoing now about folding gdk into gtk,
this is basically a workaround for a Debian libtool patch; some
discussion here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633405

We could undo this by running sed on the resulting XML I guess.  For
now, I suggest using just the first library name.