Re: [Vala] Generated vapi file for a library not compilable.

[PCMan <pcman tw gmail com>]

Thank you for the prompt reply.
I just fixed it with using a sed command to add the "global::" prefix in a
"all-local" target of Makefile.am, which is very dirty!
I'll try what you said. I did not noticed that it can be the cause of the
problem.
Thank you very much!!!


On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 10:13 +0800, PCMan wrote:
> > All of the errors I got are like these:
> >   VALAC  lxpanel2_vala.stamp
> > lxpanel-applet.vapi:10.27-10.49: error: The type name
> `Lxpanel.AppletInfo'
> > could not be found
>
> In lxpanel2.vala you have a class `Lxpanel' in the namespace `Lxpanel'.
> This means that the symbol `Lxpanel' will be resolved to the class
> `Lxpanel.Lxpanel' instead of the global namespace `Lxpanel' - when
> referenced from within the namespace `Lxpanel'.
>
> valac typically detects such conflicts and prefixes the name with
> `global::' in the generated .vapi file. However, as the conflict is not
> in the lxpanel-applet library, it's impossible for valac to detect that
> conflict when generating the .vapi file.
>
> I recommend you to rename the class `Lxpanel.Lxpanel' to something else
> such as `Lxpanel.Panel'.
>
> Regards,
> Jürg