%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Vala Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C. &lfs72_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &vala-md5sum; Download size: &vala-size; Estimated disk space required: &vala-buildsize; Estimated build time: &vala-time; Vala Dependencies Required Optional (Required for the tests) and (Required for generating the documentation) User Notes: Install Vala by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr && make To test the results, issue: make check. Note that a D-Bus session daemon must be running for the tests to succeed. Now, as the root user: make install Installed Programs Installed Library Installed Directories vala, vala-0.16, valac, valac-0.16, vala-gen-introspect, vala-gen-introspect-0.16, vapicheck, vapicheck-0.16, vapigen and vapigen-0.16 libvala-0.16.so /usr/include/vala-0.16, /usr/lib/vala-0.16, /usr/share/devhelp/books/vala-0.16 and /usr/share/{vala,vala-0.16} Short Descriptions valac is a compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files. valac vala-gen-introspect generates a GI file for GObject and GLib based packages. vala-gen-introspect vapicheck verifies the generated bindings. vapicheck vapigen is a utility which generates Vala API (VAPI) files from GI files. vapigen libvala-0.16.so contains the Vala API functions. libvala-0.16.so