Re: [Vala] Autovala: new program for developers

[rastersoft <raster rastersoft com>]

The process is divided in two stages:

   * the first stage search the project's folders and creates a custom
project file with what it supposes is the right-way-to-do(tm)
   * the second stage takes that custom project file and generates the
CMakeLists.txt files

In between you can modify the custom project file to do some changes and
customize how you want to compile it.

About your specific questions:

  1) you can add to the custom project file an "ignore" statement to
avoid Autovala use a file/folder
  1b) It's not possible to add conditional compilation directly, but you
can use an "include" statement in the project file to append a
manually-written CMake file to the end of the automatically generated
one, adding your specific commands

  2) Not yet, but is a good idea

Keep in mind that the idea for Autovala is to simplify the most common
cases, so you can't expect to be able to use in the 100% of the
projects, but only in the 90%. But that's the idea: for simple projects,
where you just need the most basic CMake things and manually writing the
files would be too hard, use Autovala; for complex projects use CMake
directly.

Even there's another possibility: use Autovala to generate the common
parts (this is: installing icons, documentation, po files and so on),
and manually write the parts for compiling your code.

El 30/03/13 18:25, Tal Hadad escribió:
> This is sound very attractive, even I don't like CMake.
>
> I have a few question tough:
> 1. I've read autovala search autocratically for vala files.
> Can I disable this feature?
> Supposing I want to compile some file only on some condition, can it be possible?
>
> 2. Can a C files be used with Vala?
> Like using --use-fast-vapi and adding a C file to complication.
>
> Hope the best for your tool.
> Tal
>
> > From: tarnyko tarnyko net
> > To: vala-list gnome org
> > Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:14:00 +0100
> > Subject: Re: [Vala] Autovala: new program for developers
> >
> > Nice ! Thanks for your work, will check that when I have time. 
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tarnyko 
> >
> > rastersoft writes: 
> >
> > > Hi all: 
> > >
> > > Several days ago, another user commented in Elementary Dev list that
> > > using CMake with Vala was quite hard and difficult. 
> > >
> > > After thinking about it, I reached the conclusion that using CMake is
> > > quite boring and repetitive, so I said to myself: why not creating a
> > > tool that automatically generates the CMakeLists.txt files, based on
> > > several rules and heuristics? 
> > >
> > > The result is Autovala. It not only deduces where to put each file and
> > > how to compile the binaries or libraries from the sources, but also
> > > automagically finds the packages used in each project, and passes them
> > > to the compiler. It also creates automatically the .gir and .vapi files
> > > for libraries. 
> > >
> > > You have a longer and more precise description in the README file, in
> > > the github repository: 
> > >
> > >     https://github.com/rastersoft/autovala 
> > >
> > > It is still an alpha version, but fully usable. It still lacks some
> > > minor things, like generating the .pc file for pkg-config, and other
> > > things. For those I will need some help. If someone volunteers... 
> > >
> > > Enjoy it! 
> > >
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