Can't compile budgie applets using vala which includes budgie in the code

Budgie Applets
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I’m trying to compile vala applets using old ikey 's Vala example applet, but whenver I run a command like “valac --pkg gtk±3.0 ValaExample.vala” it gives me error like

ValaExample.vala:27.48-27.53: error: The symbol `Budgie' could not be found
 public class ValaAppletExample : GLib.Object, Budgie.Plugin {
                                               ^^^^^^
ValaExample.vala:29.12-29.17: error: The symbol `Budgie' could not be found
    public Budgie.Applet get_panel_widget(string uuid)
           ^^^^^^
ValaExample.vala:40.27-40.32: error: The symbol `Budgie' could not be found
public class ValaApplet : Budgie.Applet
                          ^^^^^^
ValaExample.vala:46.13-46.18: error: The symbol `Budgie' could not be found
    unowned Budgie.PopoverManager? manager = null;
            ^^^^^^
ValaExample.vala:109.42-109.47: error: The symbol `Budgie' could not be found
    public override void update_popovers(Budgie.PopoverManager? manager)
                                         ^^^^^^
ValaExample.vala:137.31-137.34: error: The symbol `Peas' could not be found
    var objmodule = module as Peas.ObjectModule;
                              ^^^^
ValaExample.vala:138.46-138.51: error: The symbol `Budgie' could not be found
    objmodule.register_extension_type(typeof(Budgie.Plugin), typeof(ValaAppletExample));
                                             ^^^^^^
Compilation failed: 7 error(s), 0 warning(s)

I’m on Manjaro budgie but I didn’t expect any support from them as their are very less community for budgie ,

I can easily compile other vala codes to C but not budgie-applets , I’m very new to Vala and Budgie-applets please guide me.

Is their other things or other arguments to give to the valac compiler?

also whats the use of MakeFile.am their?

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Hi!

Under debian and ubuntu you need to install the package budgie-core-dev

Typically the dev packages needed for applets are

budgie-core-dev,
libglib2.0-dev,
libgtk-3-dev,
libpeas-dev,
meson,
valac,

I presume under manjaro you have something similarly named?

As to meson parameters it depends where you budgie-desktop is installed. In debian it is installed in /usr/lib/budgie-desktop

So we compile applets with

meson --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib
3

Just to say, ikeys example is very non meson based.

More modern example applets are here

4

Thanks for the reply, I will try to install the packages and then build with it/ :slight_smile: