Build instructions

[peteruithoven]

I was hoping to do a pull requests with some style tweaks. Could you maybe add build instructions?

[peteruithoven]

A start:

Install dependencies (incomplete)

sudo apt install libgtksourceview-3.0-dev

Build

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ../
make
sudo make install

[nick87720z]

Trying to build release 0.18.2 under gentoo... (how the barell roll you do it?)

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package):
By not providing "FindVala.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Vala", but
CMake did not find one.

Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Vala" with any of
the following names:

ValaConfig.cmake
vala-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of "Vala" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"Vala_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If "Vala"
provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been
installed.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

[thejambi]

I don't think I've seen that error. If I get time to look into it, I'll see what I can find.

[thejambi]

With a fresh download, the build instructions above work for me. Perhaps it's a cmake configuration somewhere, but I wouldn't know where to start. I'd recommend going through https://elementary.io/docs/code/getting-started#getting-started - that's what I followed to get the cmake build stuff set up on this project.

[ckovsky]

Finally got it building under Linux Mint 18.2, but maybe this can help:

Installed the valac ppa to get the latest version:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vala-team
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install valac

From https://github.com/rilian-la-te/cmake-vala get the following elementary cmake modules (I created a cmake folder in the project root for them):
FindVala.cmake
ParseArguments.cmake
UseVala.cmake
ValaPrecompile.cmake
ValaVersion.cmake

In project root, follow instructions as above comment:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ../
make
sudo make install

p.s.
At the time of writing this line 858 of ./src/psnotes.vala neesd to be changed to:
double newFontSize = fontSize * Pango.SCALE;
d.s.