On 08/31/2012 10:50 AM, Landon Blake wrote: > This is my first post to the Vala mailing list, so let me make a brief > introduction. I've just started learning Vala. I've been a Java > programmer and a Linux for several years. > > I'm getting an error when I try to execute the first GTK programming > example found on this page from the command prompt/terminal: > https://live.gnome.org/Vala/GTKSample > > When I attempt to execute the program from the terminal I get multiple > lines with these statements: > > invalid character literal > syntax error, unexpected literal
Can you provide a complete transcript of the error messages? This is not very informative, and I can't reproduce the problem. What command are you running to compile the program, and what is its exact output? > > It is like the program is stuck on a loop or choking on each character > in the strings in the example. > > The funny thing is, when I double click on the executable file in > Nautilus, the program runs without any problems. Any ideas what might > be going on? I'm running the latest stable version of Ubuntu and I > have the GTK 3.0 libraries installed. > > Landon > _______________________________________________ > vala-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
