Support GLib resources

[Robert Ancell]

Make it easy to add GResources to a project.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

I've previously thought about this and haven't decided if we should use the gresource.xml file or put that information into the Recipe. It would be nice to have it in the recipe so GResources were easier but I don't want to have to chase any future GResource features.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Assuming using gresource.xml I'd expect the format to be something like this:

programs.test {
  sources = test.vala
  gresources = test.gresource.xml
}

For dependencies to work Bake needs to parse test.gresource.xml to work out what files it depends on.

Note for Vala we need to pass --gresources to valac

[Victor Aurélio Santos (vaurelios)]

Rober,

In the reallity Bake not needs to parse the xml, the tool glib-compile-resources does it for you, for example:

% glib-compile-resources --generate-dependencies --sourcedir=../src ../src/gdownloader.gresources.xml
../src/menus.ui
../src/new-download.ui
../src/window.ui
../src/preferences.ui

when I'm using autotmake I use it for generate the dependencie list.

and really like you suggestion:

programs.test {
  sources = test.vala
  gresources = test.gresource.xml
}

this looks very good, when working with automake we have to write various lines... :(

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Thanks Victor! That will make things a lot easier...

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

See bug 1342610, bug 1342611, bug 1342612 and bug 1342613 for enhancements.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Final syntax is:

programs.test {
  sources = test.vala
  glib-resources = resources.xml
}

See help documentation for more details