source: general/prog/vala.xml@ 0913f48

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  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY vala-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/vala/0.16/vala-&vala-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY vala-download-ftp  "&gnome-download-ftp;/vala/0.16/vala-&vala-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY vala-md5sum        "84b742e9cca4c90fde3026c3793c03c1">
  <!ENTITY vala-size          "2.6 MB">
  <!ENTITY vala-buildsize     "110 MB">
  <!ENTITY vala-time          "1.0 SBU">
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<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>

    &lfs70_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">Vala Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="pkgconfig"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="dbus"/> (Required for the tests) and
    <xref linkend="libxslt"/> (Required for generating the documentation)</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>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.  Note
    that a <application>D-Bus</application> session daemon must be running for
    the tests to succeed.</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-0.16, valac, valac-0.16, vala-gen-introspect, 
          vala-gen-introspect-0.16, vapicheck, vapicheck-0.16, 
          vapigen and vapigen-0.16
        </seg>

        <seg>
          libvala-0.16.so
        </seg>

        <seg>
          /usr/include/vala-0.16,
          /usr/lib/vala-0.16,
          /usr/share/devhelp/books/vala-0.16
          and /usr/share/{vala,vala-0.16/vapi}
        </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 glib 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 a 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-0">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libvala-0.16.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contains the <application>Vala</application> API
          functions.</para>
          <indexterm zone="vala libvala-0">
            <primary sortas="c-libvala-0">libvala-0.16.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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