Is the Vala/Genie compiler available on the Windows and Mac OS X platforms? I know that it is possible to use GLib and GTK on Windows and Mac OS X, but there are no official downloads of Vala for either platform.
Vala/Genie builds for Win/Mac?
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There are several ways of getting Vala compiler to work on Windows. The easiest solution would be installing MSYS2 which always provides fresh version of vala as one of it's packages.
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There are no "official" builds of Vala as such. Vala is officially released as source code only. The source is then built by various distributors who package and distribute the builds.
On Linux this is done by distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu. On Mac OS X probably the most relevant is Brew and on Windows MSYS2. For more details on all of these ways see the Installing Vala section of the Vala wiki.
Vala 0.28 is currently available on Mac OS X in just the same way as the rest of the GLib/GTK platform is. Here are the official instructions for setting up a GLib/GTK development environment on Mac OS X. To build the Vala/Genie compiler, run
jhbuild build valaafter completing those instructions.I don't know the answer for Windows.