Re: [Vala] Understanding compiler... where to start?

[Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com>]

2009/7/13 Vlad Grecescu <b100dian gmail com>:
> 2009/7/13 Uwe Strempel <u strempel googlemail com>
> > Hello,
> > may be I can help you. I'm not a vala developer, but I also looked at
> > source code.
> > Do the following
> > 1. Try to download the source
> > 2. Open vala.vapi from vala source (vala-<version>/vala)
> > Here you have an overview of all used classes in vala-compiler.
> >
> > I think you can start reading at valaparser.vala
> > (vala-<version>/vala/valaparser.vala)
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Uwe
> >
> > 2009/7/13 Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com>
> > > Hello everyone.
> > >
> > > It's been some time since I started learning Vala. Now that I
> > > understand the language (or at least I think so), I'd like to start
> > > digging into the compilation process, and the compiler itself, so I
> > > can help develop it and fix issues.
> > >
> > > Can someone give me any pointers on where to start? There is quite a
> > > lot of code and quite a little documentation on it.
>
>
> Rodney Lorrimar wwrote a Hacker's guide to Vala a year ago, which is still
> pretty sound and a good starting point:
> http://rodney.id.au/dev/vala/hackers.html
>
> I agree that starting with the valaparser and the valacompiler is the most
> adequate.
>
> Vlad

Thank you both. I'll look at those. :)