NBind

GtkGLExt-sharp screenshot NBind provides a collection of third-party C#/.NET bindings for several GObject-based libraries: gdkgl, gtkgl, poppler, egg, metacity, xsettings, wnck, hildon and gsaver

New: March 2008, WebKit/GTK+ binding now available in NBind.

The bindings are intended for use in NDesk, but also work independently and only depend on Gtk# 2.0.

NBind has a new build system with these features:

Creating a new binding can be done with as little as three lines of boilerplate
.dll.config files for cross-platform remapping are auto-generated
metadata and api files have the .xml extension
API customisations are done with partial types (C# 2.0)
Consumes pkg-config files
Auto-generates pkg-config files
Makes packaging trivial: RPM spec, debian directory auto-generated
Makes building on Win32 trivial

Misfeatures

The bindings do not yet come with any documentation or samples.

In the Wild

The poppler binding is used by NDesk's DocumentViewerPart component.

gdkgl/gtkgl and gsaver are used by NDesk's screensaver infrastructure.

Development and download

Releases

None

Development

See the public SVN repository at http://svn.ndesk.org/ndesk/nbind/. It can also be browsed with WebSVN.

Installation

svn co http://svn.ndesk.org/ndesk/nbind
cd nbind
make -C ngtkext install
make -C nplatform install

Use

mcs -pkg:ngtkext your.cs