Re: [Vala] Newbie questions

[Denis Cheremisov <denis-cheremisov yandex ru>]

The only problem is repo's vala version is very old:

$ apt-cache policy valac
valac:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.1.2-2
  Version table:
     0.1.2-2 0
        500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Packages

coulamac, you should download tar.gz file from the vala site, and then
install it.

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 23:37 -0500, A. Walton wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:25 PM, coulamac <aigiskos yahoo com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I'm attempting to learn Vala and am an extreme newbie,
> >  so please be gentle with me.
> >
> >  I am using Ubuntu and dowloaded vala using synaptic.
> >  Then I copied the Basic Sample from live.gnome.org
> >  page into a text file I called valaSamples.vala.
> >
> >  First I tried to compile valaSamples.vala with valac
> >  from a directory of my making in ~/Documents.  I
> >  received an error saying I should include
> >  gobject-2.0.pc to my PKG_CONFIG_PATH.  I've been
> >  trying to echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH and set it, but I'm
> >  not having much luck.  Can anyone give me very, very
> >  detailed basic instructions on how to compile a vala
> >  hello world in this fashion?
> >
> >  Second, I decided to place my shiny valaSamples.vala
> >  in usr/bin/ where valac lives to see if I could outwit
> >  PKG_CONFIG_PATH.  I succeeded, but I ran into another
> >  problem.  I got the following error: Segmentation
> >  Fault (core dumped).  Hmmm... does anyone know how to
> >  get more detailed information to find out what went
> >  wrong?
> >
> >  For the record, here is the text in valaSamples.vala:
> >
> >  /* Basic Vala Sample Code */
> >  using GLib;
> >
> >  public class Sample : Object {
> >         public Sample () {
> >         }
> >
> >         public void run () {
> >                 stdout.printf ("Hello World\n");
> >         }
> >
> >         static int main (string[] args) {
> >                 var sample = new Sample ();
> >                 sample.run ();
> >                 return 0;
> >         }
> >  }
> >
> >
> >  Thanks in advance for your patience and help!  I will
> >  be happy to edit the tutorial in live.gnome.org with
> >  your insights, if you don't think the information is
> >  too basic.
>
> It's likely you're forgetting to add the --pkg line:
>
> valac test.vala -o output --pkg glib-2.0
>
> >  ~Andrew
> >
> >  ~~~~~~~~~
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> >
> >
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