Re: [Vala] no Gtk when it is installed ??

[Vlad <b100dian gmail com>]

Tobiasz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I' ve recently tried out Vala on my Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon and I've 
> encountered a problem at the very beginning. I've copied and pasted the
>
>
>   *"Another Vala GTK+ Example using GtkTreeView and GtkBuilder API"*
>
> from the  samples located on http://live.gnome.org/Vala/GTKSample and 
> after execution of valac test.vala (test is the file with the example) I 
> receive an error:
>
> /home/tobiasz/test.vala:1.7-1.9: error: The namespace name `Gtk' could 
> not be found
> /home/tobiasz/test.vala:7.9-7.17: error: The type name `FileModel' could 
> not be found
> /home/tobiasz/test.vala:8.9-8.13: error: The type name `Label' could not 
> be found
> /home/tobiasz/test.vala:9.9-9.12: error: The type name `VBox' could not 
> be found
> /home/tobiasz/test.vala:10.9-10.13: error: The type name `Entry' could 
> not be found
> ... etc.
>
> I guess it all concerns Gtk library but I've checked it twice and I've 
> got Gtk library installed with all dev packages and so on...
>
>   
Seems like you need to run
$ valac --pkg gtk+-2.0 test.vala

This is the name of the package as mentioned in it's pkg-config file, 
and enables valac to lookup it's VAPI file and even pass the --cflags 
--libs to gcc

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