Re: ada and gnat (mingw)

[Hans Vlems <hvlems@freenet.de>]

On 4 dec, 15:21, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2012-12-04, Hans Vlems <hvl...@freenet.de> wrote:
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> > This is not a real ADA language question and thus possibly off topic
> > but don't be too hard on a newbie :)
> > I want to use my own packages. Example:
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> > package my_constants is
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> >  cc_hyphen : constant character := '-';
> >  cc_comma : constant character := ',';
> >  cc_digit9   : constant character := '9';
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> > end my_constants;
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> > This file is stored as my_constants.adb (on a WIndows platform).
> > gnatmake my_constants.adb results in:
> > gnatmake: my_constants.adb:1:08: keyword "body" expected here [see
> > file name]
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> > Inserting the reserverd word body after package on line 1 doesn't
> > help...
> > What am I doing wrong and where can I find information on how to drive
> > this compiler?
> > Hans
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> > PS
> > Apologies for the OT post
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> Not OT, IMHO.
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> With GNAT, the package specification goes into a .ads file; the package
> body goes into a .adb file.
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> (This assumes you really are defining a specification above. :-))
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> Simon.
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Thanks, that problem is now solved.
Where sould I have found that information? The mingw site is mainly
oriented towards installation issues.
ADA specific information is hard to find.
Hans