6. Other Tools

6.1. vapigen

vapigen is a tool to make bindings. It creates VAPI files from a library's metadata and any extra information required.

6.2. vala-gen-introspect

vala-gen-introspect is a tool for extracting metainformation about GObject based libraries. Nowadays, the preferred method is to use GObject Introspection instead, as vapigen can use GIR files directly.