Re: [Vala] ANNOUNCE: ValaWinPKG for win32

[tarnyko tarnyko net]

Hi Tal, nice to see some feedback, 

> If I have mingw and install Vala and other libraries using MinGW(msys),
> can I install a specific library(such as gobject-introspection) which I can't build?

ValaWinPKG uses Vala and GLib versions to identify compatible packages. So, 
as gobject-introspection depends on GLib, you could well have a prebuilt 
package for the custom GLib you've built with MinGW/MSYS. 

If you cannot compile gobject-introspection yourself, you'll have to find 
compatible binaries on the Internet, test them, and create the package 
yourself (see below). 

The "build, find" is really the tricky part. ValaWinPKG works at best with 
the Vala bundle found here : 
https://vala-win32.googlecode.com/files/vala-0.12.0.exe 

> Can I create a custom package for other libraries(which out of repo)?

Of course.
To create a custom package at this very moment, you need to host a local 
repo following the guidelines. I just made my repo browsable, so you can see 
them :
http://www.tarnyko.net/repo/vala/ 

The root folder is named "vala<VERSION>-glib<VERSION>". The versions have to 
match those found on the system. 

"Packages" is a CSV file listing packages with dependencies. 

The packages themselves are ZIP files following this structure :
|
bin/*.dll
include/mylib/*.h
lib/*.dll.a
lib/pkgconfig/*.pc
*.vapi 

Regards, Tarnyko