[Vala] Building Vala Applications

[Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko gmail com>]

Hi; I recently updated two small Vala applications I have ([3], [4])
so they could use Gtk.HeaderBar, templates, and other cool new stuff.

I could not find any recent documentation to do this (for Vala), so I
basically followed chapter 1 section 5 of the Gtk+ library
documentation [5], adapting the C code into Vala on the way. When I
was done, I realized that the same document (with accompanying code)
adapted to Vala would perhaps be useful for Vala programmers, or
people wanting to start learning how to build Vala applications.

So I did just that; in [1] you can find the adapted guide to build
Vala applications, and in [2] you can find the corresponding source
code (including the documentation Mallard source files).

This only took me a couple of days, and if there is interest I could
do the same for the first chapter of the Gtk+ library documentation,
and  perhaps moving it to a more "official" location in the Vala/GNOME
infrastructure.

[1] http://xochitl.matem.unam.mx/~canek/building-vala-applications/
[2] https://github.com/canek-pelaez/vala-example
[3] https://github.com/canek-pelaez/gqpe
[4] https://github.com/canek-pelaez/mlm
[5] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.12/ch01s05.html
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Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México