Re: [Vala] Creating executables without glib/gobject

[Matías De la Puente <mfpuente ar gmail com>]

Hi Barry:

2009/3/11 Barry Kauler <bkauler gmail com>

Matías De la Puente,
I am very interested in what you have done, with your "Multiboot"
code. I'm wondering how far this can be pushed. Is it feasible to code
in a subset of Vala/Genie such that Glib/Gobject is not required, only
the C library, so the executable could be compiled statically with
dietlibc?

It's possible to build glib with dietlib? just wondering...

 

I'm wondering though, would I quickly run into trouble if I started to
write anything more than the most elementary Vala/Genie program?

Well, yes. :( 
Just because there's a lot of function and other things to implement.
Just try to see the generated c code of this vala code: 

public class MyObject {
}

If you implement all the function and constants in the generated c code you can use this kind of object.
See this other code:

public class MyObject: GLib.Object {
}

Again if you implement all the stuff you need you can make it work.
Or see this:

[Compact]
public class MyObject {
}

This is more easy to implement, but you don't have inheritance http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557390 , big trouble... :)

But there's another way that isn't implemented but is planned. A plugin that can generate the object you want (with posix function :-D).

Matias