Re: [Vala] Newbie questions

[heimdall_spe <heimdall_spe yahoo fr>]

Hi coulamac,

Has it said before, the version of vala in the ubuntu repository is to old.
You can download and compile vala 0.16 but remenber that Vala is
self-hosting, so maybe you have to go 0.14 then 0.15 etc.

Another solution, is simply to take packages made by the
avant-window-navigator team
(https://launchpad.net/~awn-testing/+archive). And then you go directly
to 0.16


> 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.
>
> ~Andrew
>
> ~~~~~~~~~
> dissertus scribendo latine videri volo.
>
>
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