Am Mittwoch, dem 01.03.2023 um 05:00 +0000 schrieb Adam Faiz: > > Looking at the vala source code, we can bootstrap the current > > version from 0.39.5.8, which appears to be between release cycles – > > 0.39.6 already requires it, whereas 0.39.5 bootstraps from 0.25.1. > > I'm not sure how to get 0.25.1 to build from source, though. The > > code in vala-bootstrap does not appear helpful, it in fact reads > > exactly like Vala-compiled Vala. > > > > Cheers > > > I've now hosted my own vala-bootstrap [1], which has valacompiler.c > > and gee translated to more readable C already. I'd be happy to > > take in patches or transfer it to the bootstrappable project. > > > > Cheers > > > > [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/lilyp/vala-bootstrap > > An easier route to bootstrap Vala could be the archeological > approach: > > Oldest commit(SVN import): 68f95ffe3aef82aac0fb7bbc65d1faab19902e3c > Last commit with only C code(except for tests written in Vala): > c300d9c3d0af08f628b6c260bdd32f431a47e0f2 > > Became self-hosting(it still bootstraps with written C code under > valac/): > 29a1dec53a4661779cc819ede69732c6c1118088 > > Removed bootstrappability(removed valac/ directory and uses Vala- > generated C code under ccode/): > 35bd6909ba2b8467ba95dfe6360e7a7e227115c8 > > Oldest release: VALA_0_0_1 > > This information should make it possible to bootstrap Vala. Provided that we find a version of yacc that doesn't choke on the grammar files. Also, we got an uncertain road ahead for Valas before 0.35.1, and then vala 0.39.6 did a dirty bump in which they rely on a practically unreleased version.
So yes, the archeological approach could work, but I wouldn't necessarily count on it being "easy". Cheers