Re: [Vala] Compiling under Windows

[Daniel Espinosa <esodan gmail com>]

May is a good idea to add NSIS script directly in Vala repository. It could
be redistributed with Vala source code or have a way to automatically
create Windows installer with the new versions.
El ene 20, 2014 3:33 p.m., "Tarnyko" <tarnyko tarnyko net> escribió:

> 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
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