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[Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've now updated the build instructions to refer to valac 0.22 and
updated the build configuration to abort if this version is not found.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Tammo Heeren <tammo.heeren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 found
> configure: 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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