Building Go For It

Building on Gnu/Linux

To build Go For It! you need to have the following software installed:

valac >= 0.16  (>= 0.26 is recommended if you have GLib > 2.40 installed.)
cmake >= 2.6
gtk+-3.0 (>= 3.10 recommended)
glib-2.0
libnotify
gettext

On Debian/Ubuntu you should be able to install everything you need with:

sudo apt-get install valac libgtk-3-dev libnotify-dev cmake

Use the following commands in the root of the project in this order to build Go For It!:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .. # assuming you want to install everything in /usr
make
sudo make install

Use the following commands to update the translation files:

mkdir build
cd build
make pot

Go For It! can be built in a similar way to how it's built on Linux using MSYS2.

The following instructions are for making a x64 build of Go For It!.

Install MSYS2 (installer, wiki)
Install git, make, vala, gtk3, cmake, gettext, the mingw toolchain (msys2/mingw64 console: pacman -S msys/git msys/make mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-vala mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3 mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gettext mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain)
If you want to edit the code it may be nice to have an editor with at least Vala and CMake syntax highlighting. You could use pacman to install gedit (pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gedit mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gedit-plugins) which can then be launched from the mingw64 console. Any other editor that has syntax highlighting support for Vala and CMake will of course do.

open a mingw64 console (MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit/mingw64.exe).
Get the code from the windows-cmake branch git clone https://github.com/mank319/Go-For-It.git --branch windows-cmake
cd into the root of the Go For It! project.

build and install Go For It! as a mingw64 application

  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake -G"MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/mingw64 ..
  make
  make install

Download notify-send and place notify-send in <path to msys2 installation directory>\mingw64\bin
You should now be able to launch Go For It! from the mingw64 console
```
  go-for-it
```