Archived

This repository is not maintained anymore and will not be updated to Elementary OS 6.0. You have my blessing to create a fork and update the application to post publish it in Elementary 6.0 under your own name.

Vala Tester

Test your Vala code easily

Vala code without a server!

A Vala application to test Vala snippets without the hassle.

Installation

Arch Linux

Arch Linux users can find Vala Tester under the name vala-tester-git in the AUR:

$ aurman -S vala-tester-git

Ubuntu Derivatives

First you will need to install elementary SDK

sudo apt install elementary-sdk

Dependencies

These dependencies must be present before building

• valac
• gtk+-3.0
• granite
• gtksourceview-3.0

You can install these on a Ubuntu-based system by executing this command:

sudo apt install valac libgtk-3-dev libgranite-dev gtksourceview-3.0

Building

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja

Installing

sudo ninja install

Recompile the schema after installation

sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Update .pot file

Call the following command from the build folder:

ninja com.github.bartzaalberg.vala-tester-pot