Re: SDL Ada package fails to compile on Mac, gnat 13.1, missing "SDL2_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"

[Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, June 29, 2023 at 2:22:30 PM UTC-7, Simon Wright wrote:
> Kenneth Wolcott writes: 
> 
> > 2. I stopped using Alire because I wanted a native gnat compiler and 
> > Alire didn't provide one and now that I installed and am using Simon's 
> > (again, thank you) build, Alire refuses to "get" some interesting 
> > packages. I'll respond later with some specific examples. Perhaps I 
> > have Alire improperly installed or configured...
> I wrote up something about this[1]. 
> 
> Alire will download and install external packages (e.g. SDL2) if it 
> knows how to use the host system's package manager. The "nightly" 
> builds[2] for macOS know how to install via Homebrew, provided that the 
> external manifest has been updated[3]. 
> 
> If someone wants to upgrade Alire to use MacPorts, I'm sure that would 
> be welcomed. 
> 
> Adding aarch64 compilers to the mix makes things somewhat more 
> complicated. 
> 
> Does MacPorts provide aarch64 (aka arm64) binary libraries? the object 
> code and libraries that are linked to produce an executable must be 
> consistent, all x86_64 or all aarch64. 

I have no configured MacPorts to not accept any binaries that aren't aarch64
 and I do almost all of my upgrade+updates using the source flag so that I build from source.  There's only one issue that I've experienced after making that change: 

port outdated
sbcl-bootstrap                 2.1.2_0 < 2.2.9_0

The following are two lines from the failed upgrade to MacPorts, but they don't really adversely affect me because I have a prior version (I don't recall what I have that requires this package :-) )

Error: Cannot install qt4-mac for the arch 'x86_64' because
Error: its dependency dbus does not build for the required arch by default

port installed | grep sbcl-bootstrap
  sbcl-bootstrap @2.1.2_0 (active)

> [1] 
> https://forward-in-code.blogspot.com/2023/06/alire-on-macos-revisited.html 
> [2] https://github.com/alire-project/alire/releases 
> [3] https://github.com/alire-project/alire-index/pull/832

I'll take a look at those references...

Thanks,
Ken