comp.lang.ada
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada bindings for filesystems
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 16:13:58 +0200
Date: 2012-09-07T16:13:58+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1nh8kazthkfkx.wahq74dz8xgx.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87cbc5e6-d44a-401f-ba40-d5cd00d29398@googlegroups.com

On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 06:49:34 -0700 (PDT), alb348@gmail.com wrote:

> After all, I simply need to access some filesystem functions, so why
> should I need Gnome? 

Theoretically you don't need it, because GIO is distributed as a library,
which could be used without GNOME. GIO would require some other libraries
from Glib, though.

> Has anyone here some experience with binding Ada to low-level (filesystem)
> functions?

Not specifically this, but many people here.

> Could you at least point me to the right direction to doing that?

ARM B.3 is all you need, assuming that OS interfaces are in C. It is 2-3
API functions you have to import plus some constants to declare. 1-2 hours
of work...

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-14 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-06 15:45 Ada bindings for filesystems alby
2012-09-07  7:23 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2012-09-07  7:44   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-09-07 13:49 ` alb348
2012-09-07 14:13   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2012-09-07 14:29     ` alb348
2012-09-07 15:27       ` Simon Wright
2012-09-07 23:14       ` Anh Vo
replies disabled

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox