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[Tammo Heeren <tammo.heeren@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was following the instruction in the readme file which state:

sudo apt-get install valac-0.16 vala-0.16
sudo update-alternatives --config valac # select vala-0.16

Following is the output of ./configure. There is a warning which I missed.

./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for valac... /usr/bin/valac
checking whether /usr/bin/valac is at least version 0.22.0... no

*configure: WARNING: no proper vala compiler foundconfigure: WARNING: you
will not be able to compile vala source files*
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
checking for glib-compile-resources... /usr/bin/glib-compile-resources
checking for SIMPLE_SCAN... yes
checking for COLORD... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking sane/sane.h usability... yes
checking sane/sane.h presence... yes
checking for sane/sane.h... yes
checking sane/saneopts.h usability... yes
checking sane/saneopts.h presence... yes
checking for sane/saneopts.h... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for itstool... itstool
checking for xmllint... xmllint
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for intltool >= 0.35.0... 0.50.2 found
checking for intltool-update... /usr/bin/intltool-update
checking for intltool-merge... /usr/bin/intltool-merge
checking for intltool-extract... /usr/bin/intltool-extract
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.14.2
checking for XML::Parser... ok
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating data/Makefile
config.status: creating data/icons/Makefile
config.status: creating help/Makefile
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing po/stamp-it commands



On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Also, when running ./configure it should have checked the version of
> vala you had - did that not happen?
>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Robert Ancell
> <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Tammo,
> >
> > It appears you have a version of vala < 0.22 (which is when the
> > --gresources flag was added). Ubuntu 13.04 only has vala 0.20 so you
> > will not be able to compile simple-scan without installing a new
> > version of vala.
> >
> > Note that Ubuntu 13.04 is end-of-life; I'd recommending upgrading to a
> > supported version (Ubuntu 14.04).
> >
> > --Robert
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Tammo Heeren <tammo.heeren@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >> I managed to follow the instructions to simple-scan-3.13.3. When i call
> >> 'make' I get the following:
> >>
> >> theeren@dell:~/Desktop/simplescan/simple-scan$ make
> >> Making all in src
> >> make[1]: Entering directory
> >> `/home/theeren/Desktop/simplescan/simple-scan/src'
> >>   VALAC    simple_scan_vala.stamp
> >> Unknown option --gresources=../data/simple-scan.gresource.xml
> >> Run 'valac --help' to see a full list of available command line options.
> >> make[1]: *** [simple_scan_vala.stamp] Error 1
> >> make[1]: Leaving directory
> >> `/home/theeren/Desktop/simplescan/simple-scan/src'
> >> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> >> theeren@dell:~/Desktop/simplescan/simple-scan$ simple-scan
> >>
> >> I am a bit at a loss now. Can somebody provide some guidance about what
> do
> >> to? I am on Ubuntu 13.04.
> >>
> >> Tammo
> >>
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