valabind mit Homebrew, apt, MacPorts, pacman installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• valabind
• valabind-cc

Projektgeschichte

The official README describes valabind as a tool for transforming Vala or VAPI files into binding-oriented outputs. It preserves older language in the README referring to a Mercurial repository, but the current official source is the GitHub repository under the radare organization.

GitHub releases show a modest public release history, with 1.5.0 published in 2018, 1.7.2 in 2020, and 2.0.0 in 2026. The repository remains small compared with Vala itself, but it occupies a specific interoperability niche.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The package appears in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, MacPorts, and Arch according to the input, which suggests adoption mainly by users who need radare/Vala binding workflows rather than broad application development.

Its adoption is tied to radare and reverse-engineering tooling: the input describes it as Vala bindings for the radare reverse-engineering framework, and the README's repository ownership and contact point are within the radare ecosystem.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users invoke `valabind` and `valabind-cc` to generate binding glue from Vala/VAPI descriptions. The README documents building with either the traditional configure/make flow or Meson, then installing the tools.

The practical package-manager use case is installing the generator as part of a binding build chain, often alongside Vala, SWIG, and radare-related source packages.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

valabind is interesting to package nerds because it sits in the narrow space between Vala's VAPI metadata, SWIG-style bindings, and reverse-engineering tooling. It is the kind of small generator package that only appears when a build wants language bindings rather than a user-facing program.

Its significance is therefore mostly historical and infrastructural: it shows how Vala's compile-time API descriptions were reused to generate bindings for non-Vala consumers in the radare ecosystem.

Zeitleiste

• 2018: 1.5.0 GitHub release published.
• 2020: 1.7.2 GitHub release published.
• 2026: 2.0.0 GitHub release published.

Related projects

• Vala and VAPI files are the input language and metadata format valabind understands.
• SWIG is a key output target for generating language bindings.
• radare and radare2 are the reverse-engineering ecosystem associated with the project.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/radare/valabind/releases?per_page=100
• https://github.com/radare/valabind
• source_facts.description
• source_facts.executables
• source_facts.package-manager