Re: [Vala] Bring vala to AIX?

["Ali Sabil" <ali sabil gmail com>]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 02:41 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> > 2008/5/17 Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>:
> >         Dear All,
> >
> >         Any one has any experience to build vala on an AIX?
> >
> > Hi Yu,
> > Have you actually tried yourself? I'm sure that pretty much none in
> > the Vala has access to an AIX host.
> > I can't see any reason for it not to build as long as GLib is ported
> > to AIX.
>
> I tried today. AIX only have GLib 2.8; vala 0.3.2 doesn't build, with an
> error G_TYPE_GTYPE not found(after I manually change the minimum
> GLIB_VERSION from 2.12 to 2.8)
Could you try building glib 2.16 on AIX ?

> Is there an older version that can be built on GLib 2.8?
> >         I am thinking of (scripting) Vala in scientific computing.
> >         After some
> >         painful experience with ROOT.
> >
> > I'm not sure if I get the point here, Vala is not an scripting
> > language. Can you clarify on this?
>
> Yes, Vala is not an scripting language. Vala can be used in a similar
> way as ROOT utilize C++ via CINT:
>
> Write an shell (let's call it valai )that
> (1) interprets vala statements,
> (2) access the GLib libraries with the help of the .vapi files.
> (3) when the shell statements are compiled via valac, they become binary
> libraries and can be accessed by valai.
>
> The 3rd point is essential for a usable scientific computing toolkit.
> Both ROOT and Matlab have it. If I can remember a couple of weeks ago
> someone said he/she wrote an interpreter for vala 0.1.x .
>
> The following are off the topic I should write a new mail.
>
> The reference management and type deferment(eg, var x = new Someting())
> in VALA is a good plus comparing with C++; the garbage
> collection can be done in a library level.
>
> The GTK library can be used to build the GUI part, e,g, an object
> browser and a scientific canvas.
>
> Yu
>
>
> > Cheers,
> > Alberto
>
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