[Vala] Vala on Embedded Devices

[George Hahn <george hahn vhs gmail com>]

Dear Sirs and Mesdames,

I am extremely interested in using Vala on embedded devices. I learned
about Vala earlier this week and have spent a lot of time researching it,
but I am still a complete newbie by all definitions. I apologize for any
ignorant questions I may pose below.

To give you an idea of my target processors, take a look at the Microchip
PIC32.
Operating frequency: 40 - 80 MHz
RAM: 4KB - 128KB
Program memory: 16KB - 512KB

I have been able to expose a portion of the PIC32 peripheral library to
Vala 0.16.1 under the POSIX profile. This is a nice step, but I would
really love to be able to use classes, even with single inheritance.

The issue with using profiles other than the POSIX profile is the
dependency on GLib, specifically, glib.h and glib-object.h. The
dependencies within these files are: GType, g* numeric types, and g_*
memory and object handling functions.

My questions:

What project should I be looking at? I've taken a look at the abandoned
POSIX branch and a very brief look at the Dova branch.
(https://gitorious.org/ideas/vala-codegen-posix)

What is the bare minimum I will have to do to get classes to work?

Is writing a bare-minimum GLib implementation plausible?

In theory, I should be able to implement the direct dependencies listed
above. Would this be sufficient?

Thank you for your time,
George Hahn.