From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is getting OpenGL to work with Ada a lost cause? Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:42:25 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <1vlcotiwz52x1.rd1nm1pz1vvo$.dlg@40tude.net> References: <1bd438c5-7563-4c37-a53d-8378573cf784@googlegroups.com> <59f62e65-dcf0-42c9-82d5-5e1a3c095583@googlegroups.com> <1ed96b4d-e0d4-4a23-b230-dd1eadc14401@googlegroups.com> <14b80334-a07d-4ebb-81f6-34b5469f1134@googlegroups.com> <1919212643429967793.040137laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <1441286327430086309.749208laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: yj8+JIQUMOEawvIM7K49kA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:21823 Date: 2014-08-19T09:42:25+02:00 List-Id: On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:49:48 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > On 8/18/2014 4:01 PM, Shark8 wrote: > >> >> Makefiles are terrible in-general -- but (/especially/) the ones which >> are distributed w/ AdaCore's libs: they *really* tend to assume a *nix >> environment. >> >> Making me use a *nix environment layer like msys (or cygwin) to compile >> Ada, which is **supposed to be very cross-platform** is actually pretty >> stupid. > > What I do is this: I use windows, since it is much better as a > desktop OS, but have Linux installed on a Vbox. I have 2 monitors, one > for windows and the second for Linux. Linux mounts my windows desk > as shared. I use an X-server under Windows when I need to test Ada graphical stuff running under Linux. Otherwise putty SSH does all work. > The nice thing, is that, due to shared disk, then now Linux is just > like anything other app on windows. all use the same data. I prefer rsync in order to have clean builds. Otherwise yes. > ps. Makefiles are great. I do everything with makefiles. I use > recursive makefile to build a whole tree with one command. What > else would one use? GNAT project file: gnatmake -Pbuild.gpr -XPlatform=... does everything to me. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de