SYNOPSIS
       glib-mkenums [options...] [files...]

DESCRIPTION
       glib-mkenums is a small perl-script utility that parses C code to
       extract enum definitions and produces enum descriptions based on text
       templates specified by the user. Most frequently this script is used to
       produce C code that contains enum values as strings so programs can
       provide value name strings for introspection.

INVOCATION
       glib-mkenums takes a list of valid C code files as input. The options
       specified control the text that is output, certain substitutions are
       performed on the text templates for keywords enclosed in @ characters.

   Options
       --fhead text
           Put out text prior to processing input files.

       --fprod text
           Put out text everytime a new input file is being processed.

       --ftail text
           Put out text after all input files have been processed.

       --eprod text
           Put out text everytime an enum is encountered in the input files.

       --vhead text
           Put out text before iterating over the set of values of an enum.

       --vprod text
           Put out text for every value of an enum.

       --vtail text
           Put out text after iterating over all values of an enum.

       --comments text
           Template for auto-generated comments, the default (for C code
           generations) is "/* @comment@ */".

       --template file
           Read templates from the given file. The templates are enclosed in
           specially-formatted C comments

               /*** BEGIN section ***/
               /*** END section ***/

           where section may be file-header, file-production, file-tail,
           enumeration-production, value-header, value-production, value-tail
           or comment.

       --help
             PREFIX_THE_XVALUE    = 1 << 3,
             PREFIX_ANOTHER_VALUE = 1 << 4
           } PrefixTheXEnum;

       @EnumName@
           The name of the enum currently being processed, enum names are
           assumed to be properly namespaced and to use mixed capitalization
           to separate words (e.g. PrefixTheXEnum).

       @enum_name@
           The enum name with words lowercase and word-separated by
           underscores (e.g. prefix_the_xenum).

       @ENUMNAME@
           The enum name with words uppercase and word-separated by
           underscores (e.g. PREFIX_THE_XENUM).

       @ENUMSHORT@
           The enum name with words uppercase and word-separated by
           underscores, prefix stripped (e.g. THE_XENUM).

       @VALUENAME@
           The enum value name currently being processed with words uppercase
           and word-separated by underscores, this is the assumed literal
           notation of enum values in the C sources (e.g. PREFIX_THE_XVALUE).

       @valuenick@
           A nick name for the enum value currently being processed, this is
           usually generated by stripping common prefix words of all the enum
           values of the current enum, the words are lowercase and underscores
           are substituted by a minus (e.g. the-xvalue).

       @type@
           This is substituted either by "enum" or "flags", depending on
           whether the enum value definitions contained bit-shift operators or
           not (e.g. flags).

       @Type@
           The same as @type@ with the first letter capitalized (e.g. Flags).

       @TYPE@
           The same as @type@ with all letters uppercased (e.g. FLAGS).

       @filename@
           The name of the input file currently being processed (e.g. foo.h).

       @basename@
           The base name of the input file currently being processed (e.g.
           foo.h). (Since: 2.22)

   Trigraph extensions
       Some C comments are treated specially in the parsed enum definitions,
       such comments start out with the trigraph sequence /*< and end with the
       trigraph sequence >*/. Per enum definition, the options "skip" and
           {
             PREFIX_FOO
           } PrefixThisEnumWillBeSkipped;
           typedef enum /*< flags,prefix=PREFIX >*/
           {
             PREFIX_THE_ZEROTH_VALUE,    /*< skip >*/
             PREFIX_THE_FIRST_VALUE,
             PREFIX_THE_SECOND_VALUE,
             PREFIX_THE_THIRD_VALUE,     /*< nick=the-last-value >*/
           } PrefixTheFlagsEnum;


SEE ALSO
       glib-genmarshal(1)