On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Yu Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 02:41 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote: >> >> >> 2008/5/17 Yu Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Dear All, >> >> Any one has any experience to build vala on an AIX? >> >> Hi Yu, >> Have you actually tried yourself? I'm sure that pretty much none in >> the Vala has access to an AIX host. >> I can't see any reason for it not to build as long as GLib is ported >> to AIX. > > I tried today. AIX only have GLib 2.8; vala 0.3.2 doesn't build, with an > error G_TYPE_GTYPE not found(after I manually change the minimum > GLIB_VERSION from 2.12 to 2.8) > Could you try building glib 2.16 on AIX ?
> Is there an older version that can be built on GLib 2.8? >> >> >> I am thinking of (scripting) Vala in scientific computing. >> After some >> painful experience with ROOT. >> >> I'm not sure if I get the point here, Vala is not an scripting >> language. Can you clarify on this? > > Yes, Vala is not an scripting language. Vala can be used in a similar > way as ROOT utilize C++ via CINT: > > Write an shell (let's call it valai )that > (1) interprets vala statements, > (2) access the GLib libraries with the help of the .vapi files. > (3) when the shell statements are compiled via valac, they become binary > libraries and can be accessed by valai. > > The 3rd point is essential for a usable scientific computing toolkit. > Both ROOT and Matlab have it. If I can remember a couple of weeks ago > someone said he/she wrote an interpreter for vala 0.1.x . > > The following are off the topic I should write a new mail. > > The reference management and type deferment(eg, var x = new Someting()) > in VALA is a good plus comparing with C++; the garbage > collection can be done in a library level. > > The GTK library can be used to build the GUI part, e,g, an object > browser and a scientific canvas. > > Yu > > >> Cheers, >> Alberto > > _______________________________________________ > Vala-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
