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@JCWasmx86 thank you very much

@liferooter when I try to build this project with the gtksourceview5 subproject, I get the following error: ``` subprojects/gtksourceview-5.2.0/meson.build:1:0: ERROR: In subproject gtksourceview: Unknown options: "gtksourceview:package_subdir, gtksourceview:tests" ``` How can...

> I am not sure how to run vls-testclient to confirm the installation was successful or not. Right now you don't have to worry much about this. We will be...

@LecrisUT Ah! Is this your project: https://github.com/pdfpc/pdfpc ? It looks like this project is CMake-based, which is a backend we intend to support in the future but don't currently. At...

@LecrisUT yes, without knowledge of compile arguments, the libraries you need will not be included.

It looks like this is how we can introspect a CMake project in a similar fashion to what we do for Meson: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-file-api.7.html

@Cogitri no, because compile_commands.json only includes compile commands, not things like `g-ir-scanner` or build tasks that convert `.in` files, or other things, which produce all sorts of files that may...

Basically, there's a lot of useful information left out in `compile_commands.json` files that you need to get more than just a basic project with a few files to work.

It seems that Vala projects using CMake rely on unofficial macros from here: https://github.com/jakobwesthoff/Vala_CMake/ CMake's file API allows a program to get the list of targets and their sources in...

Also, it would help to know of more Vala projects that use CMake. pdfpc seems like the only one I could find.