/valama

Next generation Vala IDE

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Valama

The next gen Vala IDE.

Valama 28.05.2013

Manual installation

Requirements

  • cmake (>= 2.8.4)
  • valac (>= 0.17)
  • pkg-config
  • gobject-2.0
  • glib-2.0
  • gio-2.0
  • gee-0.8 or gee-1.0
  • at least libvala-0.20 (recommended) or libvala-0.18
  • gdk-3.0
  • gdl-3.0 (>= 3.5.5 is recommended)
  • gtk+-3.0 (>= 3.4)
  • gtksourceview-3.0
  • libxml-2.0
  • gthread-2.0
  • GNOME desktop icon theme (symbolic icons) (only required to display icons properly)
  • ImageMagick (only required to generate application icons from svg template) (recommended)
  • Intltool (required to generate .desktop and .xml files with localization)

On Debian based systems install following packages:

sudo apt-get install build-essential valac-0.20 libvala-0.20-dev cmake pkg-config libgtksourceview-3.0-dev libgee-dev libxml2-dev libgdl-3-dev gnome-icon-theme-symbolic imagemagick intltool

On Fedora based systems install following packages:

sudo yum install vala-devel cmake gtksourceview3-devel libgee-devel libxml2-devel libgdl-devel gnome-icon-theme-symbolic ImageMagick intltool

Hint: If you want to use a newer version of libvala, change cmake/project.cmake and cmake/guanako.cmake (and if you want to use Valama valama.vlp) accordingly.

Building

  1. mkdir build && cd build
  2. cmake ..
  3. make -j2

Installation

  1. sudo make install

This will automatically install and compile gsettings schemas. (You can disable installtion/removal hooks during compile time with -DPOSTINSTALL_HOOK=OFF option.)

Local installation

Build Valama then run with following options directly from build directory:

XDG_DATA_DIRS=".:$XDG_DATA_DIRS" LD_LIBRARY_PATH=guanako ./valama --syntax ../guanako/data/syntax --templates ../data/templates --buildsystems ../data/buildsystems [FILE]

Optionally use --layout ../data/layout.xml to use standard layout.

Packaging files for distributions

To build and install Valama for your distribution look at the packaging branch. If you don't find your distribution there, you are welcome to contribute your packaging files to this branch (and put you work under GPL-3+).

Contribution

See the wiki page for some information: Wiki

License

Valama is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later and published by:

  • Linus Seelinger
  • Dominique Lasserre

For a full list of all contributors see here and take a look at AUTHORS file.

Credits

element-* icons from Anjuta IDE (http://projects.gnome.org/anjuta, GPL2 licensed)