Re: c2ada for Win

[Craig Carey <research@ada95.ijs.com>]

On Mon, 06 May 2002 12:31:38 -0400, Tucker Taft <stt@avercom.net>
wrote:

>Preben Randhol wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 03 May 2002 03:05:48 -0500, Anatoly Chernyshev wrote:
>> > Hello, everybody,
>> >
>> > I need to convert C header into ads-file to get access to a dll. I tried
>> > to search c2ada
>> > for Windows in the Web, but the only link led me to the Intermetrics
>> > site which seems to be nonexistent any longer. If someone could point me
>> > to the right URL or send me either compilable source or the ready
>> > binary, I would greatly appreciate that.
>> 


There is a C to Ada bindings program that is in *.EXE format, at this
location:

http://members.tripod.com/vagul/
http://members.tripod.com/vagul/cbind4win32.zip

   (Site of D. Anisimkov. Cbfe.exe is 334,941 bytes in size.)

A command like this can be used, when creating Ada 95 bindings from C
headers:

   CBFE -cs -erc -rrc -ap -C -gnat -95 input.h

C headers can be obtained from http://www.mingw.org/ but cbfe gets
further when references to C headers are commented out.

Also the precompiled cbfe program will print the offsets, in bytes, of
GCC fields of structs (Ada 95 "records"). 

If the translation is from Borland Pascal to Ada 95, then the body of
the PASCAL source be translated to Ada in addition to headers (using
NewP2Ada, P2Ada).

If C++ needs to be converted into Ada, then what can translate C++
into Pascal ?.


NewP2Ada (Pascal2Ada): http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/gdm/gsoft.htm




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Ps. How can C++ be translated and converted automatically into Ada ?.



>> http://www.averstar.com/~stt/bindings/c2ada/c2ada.html
...
>> http://www.averstar.com/~stt/bindings/c2ada/c2ada.tar.gz



Craig Carey

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