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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada bindings for filesystems
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 16:13:58 +0200
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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...

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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