From 4918a67e14d53ad29e479cb6dc362e350c8b48db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Cupitt <jcupitt@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:42:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] init more types on startup

create VipsImage and VipsRegion types on vips_init()
---
 libvips/iofuncs/image.c | 2 ++
 libvips/iofuncs/init.c  | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libvips/iofuncs/image.c b/libvips/iofuncs/image.c
index 7f6341c2..c304ab81 100644
--- a/libvips/iofuncs/image.c
+++ b/libvips/iofuncs/image.c
@@ -1073,6 +1073,8 @@ vips_image_class_init( VipsImageClass *class )
 	VipsObjectClass *vobject_class = VIPS_OBJECT_CLASS( class );
 	GParamSpec *pspec;
 
+	VIPS_DEBUG_MSG( "vips_image_class_init:\n" );
+
 	/* Pass in a nonsense name for argv0 ... this init world is only here
 	 * for old programs which are missing an vips_init() call. We must
 	 * have threads set up before we can process.
diff --git a/libvips/iofuncs/init.c b/libvips/iofuncs/init.c
index 521d8fe8..12289e9f 100644
--- a/libvips/iofuncs/init.c
+++ b/libvips/iofuncs/init.c
@@ -131,6 +131,10 @@ vips_get_argv0( void )
  *     </para>
  *   </listitem>
  *   <listitem> 
+ *     <para>creates the main vips types, including VipsImage and friends
+ *     </para>
+ *   </listitem>
+ *   <listitem> 
  *     <para>loads any plugins from $libdir/vips-x.y, where x and y are the
  *     major and minor version numbers for this VIPS.
  *     </para>
@@ -213,6 +217,8 @@ vips_init( const char *argv0 )
 
 	/* Register base vips types.
 	 */
+	(void) vips_image_get_type();
+	(void) vips_region_get_type();
 	vips__meta_init_types();
 	vips__interpolate_init();
 	im__format_init();