Re: [Vala] [ANNOUNCE] Vala 0.9.6 - Compiler for the GObject type system

[Nicolas Joseph <nicolas joseph valaide org>]

Hello,

Le 18/08/2010 22:50, JM a écrit :
> Forwarding to list:
>
> Hello Christer
> ldd output for 0.9.4:
>
> ldd /usr/local/bin/valac
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00c49000)
>         libvala.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libvala.so.0 (0x002bf000)
>         libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x0019e000)
>         libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x00a5c000)
>         librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0x0014a000)
>         libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x001dd000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
> (0x00ac2000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0x0056e000)
>         libpcre.so.3 => /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x00110000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00e0b000)

By default, /usr/local/lib isn't in LD_LIBRARY_PATH:
http://code.google.com/p/valide/wiki/FAQ?wl=en#libvalide-0.0.so:_No_such_file_or_directory

> ldd output for 0.9.6:
>
> ldd /usr/local/bin/valac
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x0070c000)
>         libvala-0.10.so.0 => not found
>         libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00bd3000)
>         libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x00748000)
>         librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0x006b6000)
>         libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00e8c000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
> (0x003e5000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0x00110000)
>         libpcre.so.3 => /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x0026a000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0084f000)
>
> Something has changed.

Since vala 0.9.5, the suffix 1.0 is replaced by 0.10

> Regards
> Jörn
>
> Christers mail:
> All versions including 0.9.6 have worked for me. Here is my output from
> ldd
> if it helps:
>
> ldd /usr/bin/valac
>
>     linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7732000)
>     libvala-0.10.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvala-0.10.so.0 (0xb7479000)
>     libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb743b000)
>     libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb7373000)
>     libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7359000)
>     libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb720d000)
>     libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb7209000)
>     librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb7200000)
>     libpcre.so.0 => /lib/libpcre.so.0 (0xb71c9000)
>     /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7733000)
>
>
>
>
> > There seems to be a problem with the current release. Typing valac into
> > the terminal gives:
> >
> > $ valac
> > valac: error while loading shared libraries: libvala-0.10.so.0: cannot
> > open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > The problem didn't exist with vala-0.9.4, which is the last version
> > before 0.9.6 that I used.
> >
> > Anybody else has this issue?
> >
> > Regards
> > Jörn
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > We are pleased to announce version 0.9.6 of Vala, a compiler for the
> > > GObject type system.
> > >
> > > Vala 0.9.6 is now available for download at:
> > >    http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.9/
> > >
> > > Changes since 0.9.5
> > >  * Drop deprecated support for assigning to construct properties.
> > >  * Some refactoring in the code generator.
> > >  * Bug fixes in bindings and vapigen.
> > >
> > > Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming
> > > language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional
> > > runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to
> > > applications and libraries written in C.
> > >
> > > valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates
> > > Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject
> > > type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source
> > > code.
> > >
> > > The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the GObject
> > > type system. Vala supports modern language features as the following:
> > >
> > >         * Interfaces
> > >         * Properties
> > >         * Signals
> > >         * Foreach
> > >         * Lambda expressions
> > >         * Type inference for local variables
> > >         * Generics
> > >         * Non-null types
> > >         * Assisted memory management
> > >         * Exception handling
> > >
> > > Vala is designed to allow access to existing C libraries, especially
> > > GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. All that
> > > is needed to use a library with Vala is an API file, containing the class
> > > and method declarations in Vala syntax. Vala currently comes with
> > > bindings for GLib and GTK+. It's planned to provide generated bindings for
> > > the full GNOME Platform at a later stage.
> > >
> > > Using classes and methods written in Vala from an application written in
> > > C is not difficult. The Vala library only has to install the generated
> > > header files and C applications may then access the GObject-based API of
> > > the Vala library as usual. It should also be easily possible to write a
> > > bindings generator for access to Vala libraries from applications
> > > written in e.g. C# as the Vala parser is written as a library, so that
> > > all compile-time information is available when generating a binding.
> > >
> > > More information about Vala is available at
> > >
> > >         http://www.vala-project.org/
> > >
> > >
> > > Jürg Billeter
> > >
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