DesktopFramework

A vala framework to build desktop applications.

Requirements

• gmodule-2.0
• mysqlclient or libmariadb
• sqlite3
• libpq
• gee-0.8
• gio-2.0
• posix
• libxml-2.0
• json-glib-1.0
• libsoup-3.0 or libsoup-2.4

MACOS Environment variables

ICU_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/74.2/lib/pkgconfig LIBPQ_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/libpq/16.2_1/lib/pkgconfig export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$LIBPQ_PATH:$ICU_PATH

Compilation for Make

make

Compilation for Meson (recommended)

meson setup build --buildtype=release cd build meson compile

Common issues

If you have issues compiling with mysqlclient library, maybe you need to create a symbolic link like this

cd vapi
ln -s /usr/local/share/vala-0.56/vapi/mysql.vapi mysqlclient.vapi