Building Vala from Source

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Source code releases can be found on /Release.

Development is happening in git://git.gnome.org/vala and can be viewed here.

You can check out the current development snapshot using (please note, that you need vala installed to build it from git):

 git clone git://git.gnome.org/vala

or, if you have an account on gnome.org:

 git clone ssh://<username>@git.gnome.org/git/vala

Requirements

• GLib 2.32 or later
• Flex and Bison
• Vala 0.12.1 or later (for the initial build)

License

The Vala compiler is licensed under the LGPL 2.1+