Re: GTKAda for the Mac

[csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson)]

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:

> csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) writes:
> 
> > Where can I find a version of GTKAda that's compatible with the latest
> > GNAT for the Mac OS X? At libre.adacore there is one for several
> > platforms, but not for the Mac. When I select my OS, the button for
> > GTKAda goes away.
> 
> [1] contains the GPL 2015 version of a package that contains GTKAda, and
> links to the author's site. There[2] you will find a (French) document
> stating how to build.
> 
> You can usually find the sources, at least, of a libre.adacore.com
> package either in the "sources" subdirectory of the main compiler item
> for your OS, or you can look at the Linux download tree and select the
> "sources" subdirectory of that main compiler item or the item for the
> package you're interested in.
> 
> [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/files/GNAT_GPL%20Mac%20OS%20X/
> 2015-mavericks/
> [2] http://blady.pagesperso-orange.fr/telechargements/gtkada/Install-GTKAda-
> Quartz_wf.pdf

Thanks. This looks promising. I was hoping for an already built GTK
library, as is available in an earlier, incompatible, version. Building
from the sources is complicated.

I've tried following the instructions once and got lost. I'll try again.

Is it certain that the directions are correct? My French is pretty good
and, outside of technical terms, this is pretty straightforward French.
In particular, I'm questioning the placement of some of the apostrophes
(single quotes). Following the directions unquestionly, I ended up with
some symbol expansions ($<name>) in my .bashrc and .profile files that
would have been unexpandible at login time. For example, the symbol
instbase, which is the base symbol for all of the expansions, is not in
the .bashrc file.

Charlie
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