Re: Setting up an Ada hello world project

["markww" <markww@gmail.com>]

Oh whoops of course it put the compiled exe where I ran the command
from. I got rid of the warning too. Thanks a lot for your help guys, I
can finally start playing around with it now,

Mark

On Oct 31, 4:05 pm, "markww" <mar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah thanks guys some progress at last. I definitely agree about just
> compiling via the command line, my apps will definitely be simple
> enough for that. I gave it a shot and this was the output:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Mark>gnatmake "C:\helloworld_ada.adb"
> gcc -c -IC:\ -I- C:\helloworld_ada.adb
> helloworld_ada.adb:4:11: warning: file name does not match unit name,
> should be
> "hello.adb"
> gnatbind -x helloworld_ada.ali
> gnatlink helloworld_ada.ali
>
> No .exe is generated under C:\, is that because I received a warning?
> Do warnings stop compilation, smae as errors?
>
> Thanks so much,
> Mark
>
> On Oct 31, 3:58 pm, Björn Persson <spam-a...@nowhere.nil> wrote:
>
>
>
> > markww wrote:
> > > I finally got a working compiler for windows. However, I'm not quite
> > > sure how to go about compiling a hello world application. The default
> > > project created one source file with the text:
> > [...]
> > > but the compiler complains that there are no Ada sources in this
> > > project. How do I go about adding an Ada source? I just want to run
> > > something like:
>
> > >     with Ada.Text_IO;
>
> > >     procedure Hello is
> > >     begin
> > >        Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line("Hello, world!");
> > >     end Hello;You don't need a project file to compile a hello world program. Since
> > you have Gnat you should put that in a file named "hello.adb" and then
> > run "gnatmake hello.adb". This should produce an executable file named
> > "hello.exe".
>
> > I think you should let the Gnat project files wait a bit. Right now you
> > can think of them as something GPS uses to store the settings you make.
> > Later, when you're more familiar with Ada, you can start learning what
> > Gnat project files are useful for.
>
> > --
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