Re: [Vala] vala on mac

[Abderrahim Kitouni <a kitouni gmail com>]

Hi,

2010/6/22, celil <celil kj gmail com>:
> I just tried to unsuccessfully build the development version of Vala from
> the git repository on a Snow Leopard 10.6.4 machine.
>
>  Doing the usual steps
>
>     git clone git://git.gnome.org/vala
>     cd vala
>     ./autogen.sh
>
>  results in an error
>
>     checking for valac... /usr/local/bin/valac
>     ./configure: line 11335: syntax error near unexpected token `GLIB,'
>     ./configure: line 11335: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GLIB, glib-2.0 >=
> $GLIB_REQUIRED gobject-2.0 >= $GLIB_REQUIRED)'
>
>  Is anybody else developing on a Mac? Any ideas on how to fix this?
I don't have a mac but your error suggests that pkg-config is not
properly installed (if at all). Make sure pkg-config is installed and
look for a file named pkg.m4 (here it is /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 but
I'm using linux). If it's there and you still get the error then
aclocal isn't finding it and you should add its path to ACLOCAL_FLAGS
preceded by -I

>  Also as an aside, I compiled an existing vala project of mine under the Mac
> using vala 0.9.2. The program worked fine under Linux, but under the Mac I
> am getting segmentation faults and attempts to free unassigned pointers. Is
> anybody testing vala under a Mac? How stable is it? Would it be suitable for
> production development?

It should be stable as it should generate portable C code, but again,
I haven't tested it.

HTH,
Abderrahim