Building Vala from Source

Download

Source code releases can be found on /Release.

Development is happening in git@gitlab.gnome.org:GNOME/vala.git 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 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vala.git

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

 git clone git@gitlab.gnome.org:GNOME/vala.git

Requirements

GLib 2.40 or later
Flex and Bison
Graphviz (libgvc)
Vala 0.16.1 or later (for the initial build)

License

The Vala compiler is licensed under the LGPL 2.1+

Bootstrapping

The Vala compiler can be built directly from C code. The C files are distributed with the tarball of a Vala release. Building from the C files allows Vala to be built on platforms that do not have an existing build of the Vala compiler. Tarballs are available from download.gnome.org.

The general procedure is:

Download tarball from download.gnome.org
Extract contents of tarball: tar -xf vala-xx.tar.xz
Change in to the directory of extracted files
Configure the build: ./configure
Build the compiler and tools: make