Re: [Vala] Compile failed because of libgee.

[Didier 'Ptitjes' <ptitjes free fr>]

bharani deepan wrote:
> On 11/17/2009 06:02 PM, G.S.Alex wrote:
> > It seems that I've meet some problems with libgee.
> > The sample code works fine. But when I try to compile Vala toy for 
> > gedit and
> > Vala plugin for anjuta, it syas:
> >
> > symbol.vala:23.7-23.9: error: The namespace name `Gee' could not be found
> > using Gee;
> >        ^^^
> >
> > I've looked into the makefile.am and find that there is no " --pkg 
> > gee-1.0
> > ". But when I add it manually ,  errors change to :
> >
> > utils.vala:40.21-40.37: error: `ArrayList' is an ambiguous reference 
> > between
> > `Vala.ArrayList' and `Gee.ArrayList'
> >          var results = new ArrayList<string>  ();
> >                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  I too have the same error.
> But i  have no error when i downgrade to the previous version of vala.

There was a mandatory change needed in Vala to hide to collections the 
vala compiler internally use. This was creating collision with tools 
using libvala but needing to use the (more complete) libgee collections. 
One example of such tool is Valadoc.

Before, it was defined in the 'Gee' namespace. To solve that problem, 
now the internal collections classes of valac are directly defined in 
the 'Vala' namespace.

Please request the vtg and anjunta authors to update their package for 
the latest Vala.

OR fix it yourself by removing all the "using Gee;" statements in the 
sources of both these tools. And please give some patches to the 
maintainers of those tools as this is maybe the third time I hear such 
complains on the Vala ML.

Best regards, Didier.