Re: [Vala] General-purpose Makefile for building Vala projects (was: Does anyone know how to use parvala?)

[Fabian Deutsch <fabian deutsch gmx de>]

Good day,

Am Donnerstag, den 25.08.2011, 18:17 +0200 schrieb Christian Siefkes:
> On 08/23/2011 11:52 PM, Damien Radtke wrote:
> > Thanks for your response, but my goal is to be able to create a good,
> > general-purpose Makefile for building Vala projects. Autotools work well for
> > porting to as many platforms as possible, but for simply building and
> > testing it's overkill. My first attempt lacked parallel build support and
> > would re-compile the entire source tree every time, which I hoped parvala
> > would solve, but I discovered that it has a couple large shortcomings for
> > how I want to use it:
> ...
> > Because of these, I started working on a new Makefile using parvala.mk as a
> > template. Like I mentioned before, the idea is to have this Makefile be a
> > drop-in tool to start building Vala projects, and not require additional
> > scripts or configuration. Here's a basic run-through:
> ...
> > If there is some interest in it, I can polish it up and submit it to contrib
> > for users who would prefer plain make over automake for their projects.
>
> I, for one, would be very interested. I agree that automake is often
> overkill. A simple, make-based solution would be great.

I've experimented with cmake a bit and it seems as if the just a few
lines (and cmake modules) are needed to get a nice cmake-file which
compiles vala code. Have a look at the CMakeLists.txt in the following
tree
https://gitorious.org/valastuff/gi-example/trees/master

- fabian