Re: [Vala] Posix profile

[aaron fosslib net]

Quoting Johan Mattsson <johan mattsson m gmail com>

> Hi
>
> I have created a new prosix profile for the vala compiler that makes
> it possible to compile libraries and programs with libc as the only
> runtime dependency. Many features like signals and lambdas will not
> work with the posix profile but the implementation works well for my
> purposes.
>
> A few things changes the language specification. C symbols for true
> and false has been added as parameters to the BooleanType definition.
>
> All classes compiled with the posix profile must be compact but
> reference counting can be added to the class if needed. Here is an
> example class:
>
> [CCode (ref_function = "compact_ref_counting_ref", unref_function =
> "compact_ref_counting_unref")]
> class CompactRefCounting {
>     public string field = "Hello World\n";
>     public int ref_count = 1;
>
>     public void hello () {
>         print (field);
>     }
>
>     public unowned CompactRefCounting @ref () {
>         ref_count++;
>         return this;
>     }
>
>     public void unref () {
>         if (--ref_count == 0) {
>             this.finalize ();
>         }
>     }
>
>     private extern void finalize ();
> }
>
>
> Compile with: valac --profile posix test.vala
>
> The code is not well tested yet but I will maintain it and develop it
> further. Any ideas or suggestions that could make it easier to get
> this feature in to a stable release of vala is highly appreciated.
>
> The code is available here: https://github.com/johanmattssonm/vala
>
> Cheers
> Johan
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What version of vala is this based on? Are you planning on following  
the development version of vala?

Thanks

On Oct 26, 2014 7:54 PM, Johan Mattsson <johan mattsson m gmail com> wrote:
> Hi I have created a new prosix profile for the vala compiler that make