[MonoDevelop] Is Vala binding supposed to work?

Tue May 13 07:52:32 UTC 2014

Thanks Mike,
I agree it would be nice to see this working. Until then, it may be a good
idea to remove Vala from the multiple language support statement from the
front page of http://monodevelop.com/
People like me (who does not know enough about monodevelop to fix the Vala
support and yet interested in  trying it) would be spending time assuming
they're missing something.

Should I create a bug report about this with a reference to this thread?

Regards
Seref

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Mike Krüger <mkrueger at xamarin.com> wrote:

>  Hi
>
> No Vala isn't supposed to work. We're not officially supporting Vala.
> But if someone would take the job as Vala maintainer it would be nice.
>
> Regards
> Mike
>
> Greetings,
> I've been trying to get Vala binding for MonoDevelop to work without
> success for almost two days now.
> I am using Elementary OS (Luna) which is based on Ubuntu 12.04. The
> installation instructions for building from source are all over the web
> with slight variations.
>
>  Despite all my efforts, I could not manage to get the compilation (using
> the code on the git repository) work when I include the Vala bindings.
>  I've tried a few versions from 4.0 to latest master branch (5.1 I think)
> and the results are always the same when I include Vala bindings through
> ./configure --select. I also think that the vala bindings expect vala 0.12
> even though the current version of Vala is 0.24, but that is another story.
>
>  Here is the end of my compilation log where the process fails:
>
>  ./Gui/CompilationUnitDataProvider.cs(38,19): error CS0234: The type or
> namespace name `Dom' does not exist in the namespace
> `MonoDevelop.Projects'. Are you missing an assembly reference?
> ./Gui/DataProvider.cs(38,19): error CS0234: The type or namespace name
> `Dom' does not exist in the namespace `MonoDevelop.Projects'. Are you
> missing an assembly reference?
> ./Gui/DataProvider.cs(39,19): error CS0234: The type or namespace name
> `Dom' does not exist in the namespace `MonoDevelop.Projects'. Are you
> missing an assembly reference?
> ./Gui/ValaTextEditorExtension.cs(45,19): error CS0234: The type or
> namespace name `Dom' does not exist in the namespace
> `MonoDevelop.Projects'. Are you missing an assembly reference?
> ./Gui/ValaTextEditorExtension.cs(46,19): error CS0234: The type or
> namespace name `Dom' does not exist in the namespace
> `MonoDevelop.Projects'. Are you missing an assembly reference?
> ./Parser/ValaDocumentParser.cs(32,19): error CS0234: The type or namespace
> name `Dom' does not exist in the namespace `MonoDevelop.Projects'. Are you
> missing an assembly reference?
> ./Parser/ValaDocumentParser.cs(33,19): error CS0234: The type or namespace
> name `Dom' does not exist in the namespace `MonoDevelop.Projects'. Are you
> missing an assembly reference?
> ./ValaLanguageBinding.cs(40,19): error CS0234: The type or namespace name
> `Dom' does not exist in the namespace `MonoDevelop.Projects'. Are you
> missing an assembly reference?
> ./ValaLanguageBinding.cs(41,19): error CS0234: The type or namespace name
> `CodeGeneration' does not exist in the namespace `MonoDevelop.Projects'.
> Are you missing an assembly reference?
> ./Gui/ParameterDataProvider.cs(49,39): error CS0246: The type or namespace
> name `IParameterDataProvider' could not be found. Are you missing
> `ICSharpCode.NRefactory.Completion' using directive?
> ./Gui/ParameterDataProvider.cs(275,41): error CS0246: The type or
> namespace name `CompletionCategory' could not be found. Are you missing
> `ICSharpCode.NRefactory.Completion' using directive?
> ./Gui/ValaTextEditorExtension.cs(416,34): error CS0234: The type or
> namespace name `Dom' does not exist in the namespace
> `MonoDevelop.Projects'. Are you missing an assembly reference?
> ./Parser/ValaDocumentParser.cs(42,35): error CS0246: The type or namespace
> name `AbstractParser' could not be found. Are you missing
> `ICSharpCode.OldNRefactory.Parser' using directive?
> ./Gui/DataProvider.cs(49,3): error CS0246: The type or namespace name
> `Ambience' could not be found. Are you missing `MonoDevelop.Ide.TypeSystem'
> using directive?
> ./Gui/DataProvider.cs(50,8): error CS0246: The type or namespace name
> `IMember' could not be found. Are you missing
> `ICSharpCode.NRefactory.TypeSystem' using directive?
> ./Gui/DataProvider.cs(54,50): error CS0246: The type or namespace name
> `Ambience' could not be found. Are you missing `MonoDevelop.Ide.TypeSystem'
> using directive?
> ./Gui/DataProvider.cs(80,21): error CS0246: The type or namespace name
> `Ambience' could not be found. Are you missing `MonoDevelop.Ide.TypeSystem'
> using directive?
> ./Gui/DataProvider.cs(80,35): error CS0246: The type or namespace name
> `IMember' could not be found. Are you missing
> `ICSharpCode.NRefactory.TypeSystem' using directive?
> ./Gui/ParameterDataProvider.cs(281,34): error CS0246: The type or
> namespace name `CompletionCategory' could not be found. Are you missing
> `ICSharpCode.NRefactory.Completion' using directive?
> ./Gui/ValaTextEditorExtension.cs(108,39): error CS0115:
> `MonoDevelop.ValaBinding.ValaTextEditorExtension.HandleCodeCompletion(MonoDevelop.Ide.CodeCompletion.CodeCompletionContext,
> char)' is marked as an override but no suitable method found to override
> ./Gui/ValaTextEditorExtension.cs(245,20): error CS0246: The type or
> namespace name `IParameterDataProvider' could not be found. Are you missing
> `ICSharpCode.NRefactory.Completion' using directive?
> ./Gui/ValaTextEditorExtension.cs(349,40): error CS0234: The type or
> namespace name `TextDocumentLocationEventArgs' does not exist in the
> namespace `Mono.TextEditor'. Are you missing an assembly reference?
> ./Gui/ValaTextEditorExtension.cs(418,23): error CS0246: The type or
> namespace name `INode' could not be found. Are you missing
> `ICSharpCode.OldNRefactory.Ast' or `ICSharpCode.NRefactory.PatternMatching'
> using directive?
> ./Parser/ValaDocumentParser.cs(44,11): error CS0246: The type or namespace
> name `ParsedDocument' could not be found. Are you missing
> `MonoDevelop.Ide.TypeSystem' using directive?
> ./Parser/ValaDocumentParser.cs(46,19): error CS0246: The type or namespace
> name `ParsedDocument' could not be found. Are you missing
> `MonoDevelop.Ide.TypeSystem' using directive?
> ./ValaLanguageBinding.cs(62,10): error CS0246: The type or namespace name
> `IParser' could not be found. Are you missing `ICSharpCode.OldNRefactory'
> using directive?
> ./ValaLanguageBinding.cs(66,10): error CS0246: The type or namespace name
> `IRefactorer' could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?
> Compilation failed: 27 error(s), 0 warnings
> make[1]: *** [build/MonoDevelop.ValaBinding.dll] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/sarikan/Downloads/monodevelop-git/monodevelop/extras/ValaBinding'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
>
>  If I don't include Vala bindings and try to compile the Vala Binding
> add-in using MonoDevelop, some of the the project's references can't be
> resolved. I remove and add  most of them, but some of them are simply not
> available after the compilation.
>
>  This all gives me the impression that Vala binding is a feature that has
> been left to die, but it is still in the build options and source code. Am
> I correct? Is it possible to get 4.X version of Monodevelop with the latest
> version of Vala on Ubuntu 12.04?
>
>  We have good reasons to look into MonoDevelop and mono on linux, but
> Vala integration would make things even better, but there is no point in
> spending time if it is not supposed to work anymore :)
>
>  Best regards
> Seref
>
>
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