Re: [Vala] Compiling under Windows

[Tarnyko <tarnyko tarnyko net>]

Hi Dev_NIX, 

Dev_NIX writes: 

> To solve that on MSYS you have to install the msys-libtool package on MinGW
> Installation Manager. I've used Cygwin before. 
>
> I've been able to compile (after a good time investigating) GLib inside
> MSYS, and after some tweakings, I've successfully compiled Vala 0.22.1 on
> Windows. 
>
> Does anyone some experience or documentation to package it to an installer
> like vala 0.12 and what files and bins are needed on the directory
> structure inside the installation? 

The Vala 0.12 installer (which, I suppose, you found on code.google.com) is 
packaged using NSIS. I wrote a similar NSIS script which, I suppose, I could 
share somewhere on the Internet. The particularity is that the .vapi files 
are not located in "<root>\share" but in "\ProgramData\vala-0.XX", which is 
done by tweaking the configure file. 

I used to package former versions of Vala, but have less free time to do so. 
I'd be happy to help you if you come to IRC, irc.gimp.org, #gtk+ or #vala 
channel. 

>  
>
> 2014/1/19 Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com> 
>
> > On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 17:22 +0100, Dev_NIX wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > I'm starting some Vala experiments on Windows, and I'm using the last
> > > version compiled by Tarnyko (which is 0.20.1)
> > >
> > > Right now I'm trying to compile by myself the latest build (0.23.1) on
> > > cygwin, but I get stucked running autogen.sh with the following message:
> > >
> > > Can't locate Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm in @INC
> > > (
> > > @INC contains:
> > > E:/PROGRA~1/GnuWin32/autoconf/share/autoconf
> > >  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14/x86_64-cygwin-threads
> > > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14
> > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14/x86_64-cygwin-threads
> > >  /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14
> > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/x86_64-cygwin-threads
> > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.14 .
> > > )
> > > at /cygdrive/e/Program Files (x86)/GnuWin32/bin/autoreconf line 42.
> > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /cygdrive/e/Program Files
> > > (x86)/GnuWin32/bin/autoreconf line 42.
> > >
> > > Do you have any idea of what's going on, guys? D: 
> >
> > A random guess - you have mixed cygwin perl (as dented by paths) and
> > non-cygwin perl (e:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32) which breaks things
> > (namely autoconf - part of Vala build system). 
> >
> > Setting the perl paths straight should fix the problem (I have no idea
> > what they are - I'd try perl IRC channel) to use cygwin perl. 
> >
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Regards,
Tarnyko