valum-framework
Windows support
Hello,
I'm developing with Vala on Windows (I'm the only one, I think :p ). I tried your framework with Vala 0.20, but it doesn't seems to work ...
Is a Windows support planned ? And excuse me if I have done some mistakes with English ... I'm learning. :smile:
It's not planned, but it should be done whenever it would be sufficiently stable for production use.
The framework rely essentially upon portable libraries, so it should not take too much effort to build a working DLL.
What kind of issues are you experiencing?
Here is my errors.
`using Gee;
^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:19.7-19.13: error: The namespace name `FastCGI' could not be found
using FastCGI;
^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:65.18-65.32: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public unowned global::FastCGI.Stream @in { construct; get; }
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:67.49-67.63: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public StreamInputStream (GLib.Socket socket, global::FastCGI.Stream @in) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:65.18-65.32: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public unowned global::FastCGI.Stream @in { construct; get; }
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:65.18-65.32: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public unowned global::FastCGI.Stream @in { construct; get; }
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:65.18-65.32: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public unowned global::FastCGI.Stream @in { construct; get; }
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:118.18-118.32: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public unowned global::FastCGI.Stream @out { construct; get; }
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:120.18-120.32: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public unowned global::FastCGI.Stream err { construct; get; }
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:125.50-125.64: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public StreamOutputStream (GLib.Socket socket, global::FastCGI.Stream @out, global::FastCGI.Stream err) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:125.79-125.93: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public StreamOutputStream (GLib.Socket socket, global::FastCGI.Stream @out, global::FastCGI.Stream err) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:118.18-118.32: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public unowned global::FastCGI.Stream @out { construct; get; }
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:118.18-118.32: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public unowned global::FastCGI.Stream @out { construct; get; }
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:118.18-118.32: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public unowned global::FastCGI.Stream @out { construct; get; }
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:120.18-120.32: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public unowned global::FastCGI.Stream err { construct; get; }
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:120.18-120.32: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public unowned global::FastCGI.Stream err { construct; get; }
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:120.18-120.32: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public unowned global::FastCGI.Stream err { construct; get; }
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:321.5-321.19: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
global::FastCGI.request request;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:375.20-375.34: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
private unowned global::FastCGI.request request;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:391.38-391.52: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
public Connection (Server server, global::FastCGI.request request) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
vsgi-fastcgi.vala:33.37-33.51: error: The symbol `FastCGI' could not be found
private inline void process_error (global::FastCGI.Stream stream) throws IOError {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
valum-view.vala:38.19-38.22: error: The symbol `Ctpl' could not be found
private unowned Ctpl.Token tree;
^^^^
valum-view.vala:45.10-45.13: error: The symbol `Ctpl' could not be found
public Ctpl.Environ environment = new Ctpl.Environ ();
^^^^
valum-view.vala:164.44-164.53: error: The type name `Collection' could not be found
public void push_collection (string key, Collection collection) {
^^^^^^^^^^
valum-view.vala:166.28-166.43: error: The type name `Collection' could not be found
this.push_ints (key, ((Collection<long>) collection).to_array ());
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
valum-view.vala:170.30-170.47: error: The type name `Collection' could not be found
this.push_floats (key, ((Collection<double>) collection).to_array ());
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
valum-view.vala:174.31-174.48: error: The type name `Collection' could not be found
this.push_strings (key, ((Collection<string>) collection).to_array ());
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
valum-view.vala:189.37-189.55: error: The type name `Map' could not be found
public void push_map (string key, Map<string, Value?> map) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
valum-view.vala:190.13-190.23: error: The type name `MapIterator' could not be found
foreach (MapIterator elem in map) {
^^^^^^^^^^^
valum-view.vala:198.44-198.62: error: The type name `Map' could not be found
public void push_string_map (string key, Map<string, string> map) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
valum-view.vala:199.13-199.23: error: The type name `MapIterator' could not be found
foreach (MapIterator elem in map) {
^^^^^^^^^^^
valum-view.vala:207.41-207.57: error: The type name `Map' could not be found
public void push_int_map (string key, Map<string, long> map) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
valum-view.vala:208.13-208.23: error: The type name `MapIterator' could not be found
foreach (MapIterator elem in map) {
^^^^^^^^^^^
valum-view.vala:221.49-221.72: error: The type name `MultiMap' could not be found
public void push_string_multimap (string key, MultiMap<string, string> multimap) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
valum-view.vala:232.46-232.67: error: The type name `MultiMap' could not be found
public void push_int_multimap (string key, MultiMap<string, long> multimap) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Compilation failed: 35 error(s), 0 warning(s)
But I have issues with Gee, I can't compile packaging it.
Gee has been removed along with CTPL, so you should try this release v0.2.6.
The FastCGI namespace is provided by a VAPI https://github.com/valum-framework/valum/blob/master/vapi/fcgi.vapi It's likely a build issue.
Ok, I have just one last problem (I hope). Soup.Status doesn't seems to exist in my version of libsoup (I have 2.4). Which version are you using ?
Minimal dependencies are described here: http://valum-framework.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html#dependencies
It requires at least libsoup-2.4 (>=2.38). You can check the version in libsoup-2.4.pc which should be in pkgconfig in the DLL folder (but I'm just guessing here).
It's possible that the VAPI is not up-to-date though: it ships along with Vala.
That too complicated. I stop trying to install Valum. I'll install Linux. Thanks for your help !
@Bat41
I'm only half sorry to hear that! I'll have to get my hands dirty some days I suppose.
You should use Fedora, Valum comes packaged and batteries-included from that copr https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/arteymix/valum-framework/
I have recently build Val 0.32 for Windows. I tried to recompile Valum using this version, and i can compile just with few changes (6 lines). Yey ! But i still get this error :
error: program does not contain a static `main' method
Can you help me, please ? :smile:
Could you gist me the whole build log?
If examples are not enabled, it should not build a program, but rather a shared library.
Otherwise, just build everything along your application.
It would be nice to adapt the build with waf though.
Thanks. Now Vala compilation works, but C don't. I just have to add headers file.
I have got some problems ... https://gist.github.com/Bat41/7e07829451dbde71cb7e
I think it's not today I could start using Valum. :sob:
@Bat41 This is supposed to be automated by pkg-config.
In short, I would just like to hear it working, I think it would motivate me to port the build. Have you tried waf on Windows?
How about being (eventually) in charge of testing the build on Windows?
@Bat41 You can use Vagrant to work in a virtual environment in the meantime
I tried waf long time ago, but i didn't worked, so I made my own script. But I could try again ...
Waf doesn't detect gcc. :expressionless:
But can't I just add the source in the folder of my website sources ? Without compilation.
There's a couple of things to do for Windows support:
- [ ] conditionally build with
gio-unix-2.0(not portable) - [ ] fix the build (waf should work on Windows)
- [ ] setup CI on AppVeyor
- [ ] test with IIS HTTP server
As I said, all of Valum's dependencies are portable, so it's just a matter of how we build.
FastCGI uses UnixInputStream and UnixOutputStream to provide polling on streams. There should be a graceful fallback, probably Windows-specific.
SCGI is fully portable, but I plan on supporting UNIX domain socket as well, so it has to be conditionally enabled.
CGI work with UNIX streams too, so it should be adapted.
@Bat41 By the way I've just successfully cross-compiled for mingwn using Meson. There's still some work to do it get it right though
There's a couple of changes to make so that the framework can be fully portable.
It would basically allow anyone to cross-compile a Web app into a Windows executable.
Having just attempted to build under MSYS2 i've come to the conclusion this is impossible because of the dependency on gio-unix
@ZanderBrown There's work in progress for making it optional, see #198 is using gio-windows instead and almost all tests are passing