[SOLVED] Beware of implied compiler dependencies

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This might be obvious to some people. You’d think it would have been obvious to me, but it wasn’t. So just in case somebody runs into the same issue:

If by chance you want to use the Vala programming language, remember to install glib2_devel manually alongside the compiler, otherwise you won’t be able to build anything at all. In Debian for example the equivalent package libglib2.0-dev is a dependency for valac, so you can’t forget it, but in Haiku you can!

Hope this spares someone some headaches. Thanks for reading.

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Appears to have some missing devel dependencies, maybe check this on a next update?

~> pkg-config --cflags libvala-0.56 
-I/packages/vala-0.56.18-1/.self/develop/headers/vala-0.56 -I/packages/glib2-2.81.0-1/.self/develop/headers -I/packages/libffi-3.4.6-1/.self/develop/headers -I/packages/glib2-2.81.0-1/.self/develop/headers/glib-2.0 -I/packages/glib2-2.81.0-1/.self/develop/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/packages/libpcre2-10.45-1/.self/develop/headers
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Dunno, it worked for me after installing glib2_devel, so nothing seems actually broken.

Upon re-reading my old notes, it appears it’s possible to use Vala without the GObject runtime, so not making the latter a hard dependency is technically correct. Guess the Debian packagers were more focused on typical usage.