Re: from LabView to Ada? HowTo?

[Per Sandberg <per.sandberg@sandat.dyndns.org>]

Well given a few prerequisites:
* The card manufacturer:
  - has provided a driver
  - has provided a header file to be used to interface their product in
    the language C and are providing some interface in an  .so-
    or .dll- file.

* You are using a fairly modern GCC/GNAT.

I would use the "-fdump-ada-spec" option to gcc to get specs
representing the manufacturers API.
And with those specs you will be able to do what ever you want.
You might have a look on https://github.com/persan/zeromq-Ada to get
some ideas.
/P

On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:57:59 +0000 (UTC)
Mutek <mutek@inventati.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I wuold like to investigate if is possible to migrate or just restart 
> over from an actual LabView Windows environment to a multiplatform
> Ada/ Gnu/Linux based solution.
> 
> I use LabView to do very simple datalogging with a lot transducers: 
> analog hight pressure transducers, thermocouple/temperature
> transducers, LVDT analog and PWM/digital datalogging and so on.
> I'm just using some very expensive NI boards but I would like to stay 
> away from them.
> 
> Is there a way to use Analog/Digital IO boards with GNU/Linux and
> program direct with Ada?
> Do you know if it's possible and how? (pointing me to some working 
> reference)
> 
> I mean something very closed to Arduino hardware but more
> professional in terms of measurement precision.
> Arduino needs to load the firmware via Processing so it's a bit far
> from what I mean (using Ada to metacompile Processing and then inject
> into the board)...I mean something closed to what you can do in C
> when vendors give you the drivers and the .h to develop direct your
> solution... So how can I do this in Ada?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your feedback,
> 
> m