Re: [Vala] Compiling under Windows

[Dev_NIX <devnix code gmail com>]

I was thinking about that. Compilation on Windows lacks of documentation,
and there are problems (like compiling GLib on MSYS) more or less resolved,
but it's almost impossible find how to do it. After several weeks
investigating in my free time, I've found the problems and their solutions,
and I'm a complete autotools n00b.

Right now I'm recreating the proccess from scratch inside a clean  Windows
8.1 installation, and documenting it in blog format in Spanish, with the
intention of translate it later to English. If, in the proccess, I write a
bash/bat script to automate part of the work, I'll publish it too.

If you find it useful and want to collaborate, you are free to write to me
(in fact, I will love you with all my heart). I will post updates if I get
a complete English guide. Cheers!



2014/1/21 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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