Discussion and support on IRC channel #valama (freenode).
Manual installation
Requirements
- cmake (>= 2.8.4)
- valac (>= 0.17)
- pkg-config
- gobject-2.0
- glib-2.0
- gio-2.0
- gee-0.8
- at least libvala-0.22 (recommended) or libvala-0.20 or libvala-0.18
- gdk-3.0
- gdl-3.0 (>= 3.5.5 is recommended)
- gtk+-3.0 (>= 3.4)
- gtksourceview-3.0
- libxml-2.0
- gthread-2.0
- Intltool (required to generate .desktop and .xml files with localization)
- GNOME desktop icon theme (symbolic icons) (only required to display icons properly) (recommended)
- rsvg-convert/imagemagick (only required to generate application icons from svg template) (recommended)
On Debian based systems install following packages:
sudo apt-get install build-essential valac-0.20 libvala-0.20-dev cmake pkg-config libgtksourceview-3.0-dev libgee-0.8-dev libxml2-dev libgdl-3-dev intltool gnome-icon-theme-symbolic librsvg2-bin
On Fedora based systems install following packages:
sudo yum install vala-devel cmake gtksourceview3-devel libgee-devel libxml2-devel libgdl-devel intltool gnome-icon-theme-symbolic librsvg2
Building
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j2
Installation
sudo make install
-
sudo ldconfig
(to update linker cache for the shared Guanako helper library)
This will automatically install and compile gsettings schemas. (You can
disable installtion/removal hooks during compile time with
-DPOSTINSTALL_HOOK=OFF
option.)
Local installation
Build Valama then run with following options directly from build directory:
XDG_DATA_DIRS=".:$XDG_DATA_DIRS" LD_LIBRARY_PATH=guanako ./valama --syntax ../guanako/data/syntax --templates ../data/templates --buildsystems ../data/buildsystems [FILE]
Optionally use --layout ../data/layout.xml
to use standard layout.
Packaging files for distributions
To build and install Valama for your distribution look at the packaging branch. If you don't find your distribution there, you are welcome to contribute your packaging files to this branch (and put you work under GPL-3+).
Contribution
See the wiki page for some information Wiki or drop in on #valama (irc.freenode.net).
License
Valama is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later and published by:
- Linus Seelinger
- Dominique Lasserre
For a full list of all contributors see here and take a look at AUTHORS file.
Credits
element-* icons from Anjuta IDE (GPL2 licensed)