Installation

Linux

Vala is available on a large variety of Linux distributions. Mostly you want to install other development files for libraries, that you want to use with vala.

Note

You should avoid long-term-support realeases, because they often have only very old versions of vala.

Fedora

Development files usually come in *-devel packages, for example libgee-devel.

sudo dnf install vala

Debian

You need to install *-dev packages, to get development files on Debian.

sudo apt install valac

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S vala

*BSD

First you install the port:

cd /usr/ports/lang/vala/ && make install clean

And then you can add the package:

pkg install vala

Windows

MSYS2

MSYS2 provides a Linux-like environment for Windows. First install MSYS2, then vala:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-vala

You also need to install all libraries you want to use individually.

Windows Subsystem for Windows (WSL)

Install a Linux distribution in WSL and then go on with the installation instructions for Linux.

Mac OS X

To install Vala on you can use brew, a package manager for OS X:

brew install vala