Re: [Vala] Making libraries with Vala

[Ildar Mulyukov <ildar users sourceforge net>]

        Hi!

Abderrahim, thank you. Your letter helped me a lot.

On 04.09.2009 13:39:53, Abderrahim Kitouni wrote:
> 2009/9/4 Ildar Mulyukov <ildar users sourceforge net>:
> > 1. Valac supports "--library" option, but still cannot build one  
> with one
> > shot - it cannot link a library (is it true?)
> yes and no,
> Vala doesn't know how to compile a library by itself, but you can pass
> extra arguments to the C compiler using -X (for example -X -fPIC -X
> -shared), but this is not portable.

Yes, that worked.

> > 2. Not all of the Vala features are accessible from the program  
> using a
> > library (This is my guess. I think it's worth to have a document  
> (or wiki
> > page) explicitly naming these features)
>
> I don't think so, all vala features should be accecible to whatever
> program using them (but I may be wrong).

Sounds true. With headers generated everything seems in place.

> > 2a. I found a regression - in-library defined Error Domain is not  
> fully
> yes, this has changed in 0.7, you nedd to pass '-H my_lib.h' to valac
> to generate a header.

Good addition.

> > 3. May be something I just didn't bump in yet.
> As an example of a library written in vala, you can take a look at
> libgee (or vala itself) to see how this is managed (if you can depend
> on automake 1.11, this is even easier).

Thanks a lot.
P.S. I'm using 0.7.4 which works fine.
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