But didn't they drop the POSIX Profile with Vala 0.17.4?
Freundliche Grüsse / Best Regards / Meilleures salutations Adrian Stern ______________ Adrian Stern Software Developer screenFOOD AG Digital Signage Software and Multimedia Solutions Cysatstrasse 6 CH-6004 Lucerne SWITZERLAND Fon +41 (0)41 444 21 41 Fax +41 (0)41 444 21 43 http://www.screenfood.com » NEU! screenFOOD® CS Server 4.1 mit verlinkten Animation Factories, mehr animierten Bildübergängen, Längenerkennung von Videos und Animation Factories und vielem mehr unter: http://www.screenfood.com » NEW! screenFOOD® CS Server 4.1 with linked Animation Factories, more animated image transitions, video and Animation Factory duration recognition and much more at: http://www.screenfood.com -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Thomas Jollans Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. September 2012 17:12 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [Vala] Vala for embedded systems, IDEs, debugging > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Im Auftrag von Joe Dluzen > Gesendet: Montag, 10. September 2012 16:32 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [Vala] Vala for embedded systems, IDEs, debugging > > Hi all, > > I've been following Vala for some time now, and am interested in using > it for embedded systems. Does anyone else have experience with that? > I'd like to hear both good and bad experiences. On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:15:43 +0000, Adrian Stern wrote: > Hey There > > I'am also very intressted in hearing about this. Does vala work on the > ARMv6 architecture? Vala is not specific to any processor architecture. Vala code is compiled to C code, which is then compiled by GCC to machine code. GCC has good support for cross-compiling, so with a suitably powerful build system that knows how to call valac and a cross-gcc, (the autotools will do the trick if used properly) the language is not an issue. So the more interesting question is: can and do you want to use glib? Vala is generally used with glib/gobject, and many of its features require linking against glib (which may be impractical on your embedded system, depending on the specs/requirements), but valac does have a POSIX profile, which will generate POSIX-compliant C code without the glib dependency. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9550000/can-vala-be-used-without-gobject So - using Vala on an embedded system is quite possible, but if you choose to forego glib, you will have to make do without many of Vala's object-oriented features. > > I have some related questions I hope to get some answers for: > > Is remote debugging supported? Vala can be debugged with gdb. gdb is the swiss army knife of debugging, embedded/remote included. > How is the IDE support? I checked the tools section of the website, > the most up to date one seemed to be MonoDevelop. IDE support is dismal. If you want integrated editing and debugging, your options are Anjuta and MonoDevelop, and from a brief look a few months ago, Anjuta's Vala support is quite limited, and MonoDevelop's Vala support is somewhat broken. (it looks like it used to be good, and then things changed, but I don't know) > What about crash dumps, is there debugging support for them? I'm not sure about that, but in general, you can use all features of gdb and nemiver (a graphical front-end to gdb, and probably the most pleasant Vala debugging experience around at this point) with Vala, but will be quite aware of the fact that you're actually debugging C code with Vala source line number annotations. Thomas _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list Diese E-Mail und ihre Anhänge enthalten vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail inklusive Anhänge. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe der Inhalte dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail including the attachments. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
