Re: [Vala] Using vala, libgda, and waf

[Steven Oliver <oliver steven gmail com>]

On 06/11/2012 04:46 AM, Abderrahim Kitouni wrote:
> Hi,
>
>                     في ح، 10-06-2012 عند 00:22 -0400 ، كتب Steven Oliver:
> > I have a very very simple pet project I'm writing and I want to
> > integrate some storage in a DB using libgda or GnomeDB (not real sure
> > what it's official name is now). I've pasted the basics of the top of my
> > wscript file. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get waf to
> > recognize libgda. I'm still on Fedora 15 so I only have up to
> > libgda-4.0, which is fine, because if I can't get it to work having 5
> > won't help me any.
> >
> > I've tried several different opts.load statements in the below code
> > including "libgda", "libgda4", "libgda-4.0". Does anyone know what the
> > right statement is???
> (This has actually nothing to do with vala, it's really a waf question.)
> Anyway, you need to use conf.check_cfg like it is done for glib,
> something like:
>
> conf.check_cfg(package = 'libgda-4.0',
>                 uselib_store = 'GDA',
>                 mandatory = True,
>                 args = '--cflags --libs')
>
> and use GDA in the uselib for your application.
>
> HTH,
> Abderrahim
That has done the trick. Thank you very much! I will have to read up 
more on what exactly conf.check_cfg and opts.load do in waf.