Re: [Vala] Newbie questions

["A. Walton" <awalton gmail com>]

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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