Can't compile because valac not found, but it's installed

Question

I'm trying to compile gwibber. This is what happens when I type ./configure.

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for valac-0.14... no
configure: WARNING: No Vala compiler found.  You will not be able to compile .vala source files.
configure: error: "No valac compiler found."

But this is what I get when I type valac --version

Vala 0.15.0

So, I do have the right version of valac, right? How can this be fixed?

Answer 1

Install libvala-dev? Depending on your distribution, your command may be different, but in my case it would be on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libvala-0.12-dev

If you are on Debian based linux then just do

sudo apt-cache search libvala

or

sudo apt-get install libvala-dev

and it will usually download the latest version.