glfs/general/prog/vala.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
<!ENTITY vala-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/vala/&vala-major-version;/vala-&vala-version;.tar.xz">
<!ENTITY vala-download-ftp "&gnome-download-ftp;/vala/&vala-major-version;/vala-&vala-version;.tar.xz">
<!ENTITY vala-md5sum "734a14b7dcffa8628d7e22742c513c0a">
<!ENTITY vala-size "3.2 MB">
<!ENTITY vala-buildsize "110 MB (add 2 MB for tests)">
<!ENTITY vala-time "0.4 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 0.5 SBU for tests)">
]>
<sect1 id="vala" xreflabel="Vala-&vala-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="vala.html"?>
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<title>Vala-&vala-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="vala">
<primary sortas="a-Vala">Vala</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title>Introduction to Vala</title>
<para>
<application>Vala</application> is a new programming language that
aims to bring modern programming language features to
<application>GNOME</application> developers without imposing any
additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI
compared to applications and libraries written in C.
</para>
&lfs82_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>
Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&vala-download-http;"/>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Download (FTP): <ulink url="&vala-download-ftp;"/>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Download MD5 sum: &vala-md5sum;
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Download size: &vala-size;
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Estimated disk space required: &vala-buildsize;
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Estimated build time: &vala-time;
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<!--
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>
Required patch:
<ulink url="&patch-root;/vala-&vala-version;-upstream_fixes-2.patch"/>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>-->
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Vala Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
<para role="required">
<xref linkend="glib2"/>
</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
<xref linkend="dbus"/> (Required for the tests),
<xref linkend="graphviz"/> (Required for valadoc),
<xref linkend="libxslt"/> (Required for generating the documentation), and
<ulink url="https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/">help2man</ulink>
</para>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
<ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/vala"/>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Vala</title>
<para>Install <application>Vala</application> by running the following
commands:</para>
<note>
<para>The two sed commands and the autoreconf command below are required
if the optional dependency <xref linkend="graphviz"/> is not installed.
This will allow building the valadoc prgram and libraries that can be used
to generate API documentation in HTML format from Vala source code.
</para>
</note>
<screen><userinput>sed -i '115d; 121,137d; 139,140d' configure.ac &amp;&amp;
sed -i '/valadoc/d' Makefile.am &amp;&amp;
ACLOCAL= autoreconf -fiv &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>
<para>
To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
</para>
<para>
Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="content">
<title>Contents</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>
vala,
vala-&vala-major-version;,
valac,
valadoc (not built if the sed is applied),
vala-gen-introspect, and
vapigen (symlinks);
valac-&vala-major-version;,
valadoc-&vala-major-version; (not built if the sed is applied),
vala-gen-introspect-&vala-major-version;, and
vapigen-&vala-major-version;
</seg>
<seg>
libvala-&vala-major-version;.so and
libvaladoc-&vala-major-version;.so (not built if the sed is applied)
</seg>
<seg>
/usr/include/vala-&vala-major-version;,
/usr/include/valadoc-&vala-major-version; (not built if the sed is applied),
/usr/lib/vala-&vala-major-version;,
/usr/lib/valadoc (not built if the sed is applied),
/usr/share/vala,
/usr/share/valadoc (not built if the sed is applied),
/usr/share/devhelp/books/vala-&vala-major-version;, and
/usr/share/vala-&vala-major-version;
</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<varlistentry id="valac">
<term><command>valac</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
is a compiler that translates <application>Vala</application>
source code into C source and header files.
</para>
<indexterm zone="vala valac">
<primary sortas="b-valac">valac</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="vala-gen-introspect">
<term><command>vala-gen-introspect</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
generates a GI file for GObject and
<application>GLib</application> based packages.
</para>
<indexterm zone="vala vala-gen-introspect">
<primary sortas="b-vala-gen-introspect">vala-gen-introspect</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<!--
<varlistentry id="vapicheck">
<term><command>vapicheck</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
verifies the generated bindings.
</para>
<indexterm zone="vala vapicheck">
<primary sortas="b-vapicheck">vapicheck</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>-->
<varlistentry id="vapigen">
<term><command>vapigen</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
is an utility which generates <application>Vala</application> API
(VAPI) files from GI files.
</para>
<indexterm zone="vala vapigen">
<primary sortas="b-vapigen">vapigen</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libvala">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libvala-&vala-major-version;.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>
contains the <application>Vala</application> API functions.
</para>
<indexterm zone="vala libvala">
<primary sortas="c-libvala">libvala-&vala-major-version;.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>