Re: ANN: VisualAda (Ada Integration for Visual Studio 2017 & 2019) release 1.1.12

[alby.gamper@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 4:18:25 AM UTC+10, Greg wrote:
> Hey Alex ... SUCCESS !!! (mostly)
> 
> My MSYS environment is set up exactly like yours, and I've been able to build and install the Runtime and Bindings, and verified with gnatls, etc.
> 
> Now jumping back to VS2019, I created a new XAML project and I've set the 3 Gnat Root directories in the General Ada section of the project properties to your "for example: C:\msys64......" suggestions for each of those. Those directories do, of course, exist in my environment.
> 
> Compilation of the XAML project .adb files is working, but failing at the bind stage with something like this:
> 
> 1>------ Build started: Project: RD, Configuration: Debug x64 ------
> 1>Compile
> 1>   [Ada]          appoverrides.adb
> 1>   [Ada]          guitask.adb
> 1>   [Ada]          locatortask.adb
> 1>   [Ada]          rdxaml.adb
> 1>Bind
> 1>   [gprbind]      rd.bexch
> 1>   [Ada]          rd.ali
> 1>gprbind: invocation of gnatbind failed
> 1>gprbuild: unable to bind rd.adb
> 1>MSBUILD : error MSB4166: Child node "2" exited prematurely. Shutting down. Diagnostic information may be found in files in "C:\Users\Dad\AppData\Local\Temp\" and will be named MSBuild_*.failure.txt. This location can be changed by setting the MSBUILDDEBUGPATH environment variable to a different directory.
> 1>A task was canceled.
> 1>A task was canceled.
> 
> 
> ... Can't find anything in that TEMP folder, and know I'm just a config settings or two away. I'll keep plugging away at it and see if something jumps out at me. Thanks for all the help, great stuff !!!
> 
> Regards,
> Greg

Hi Greg

My Build output shows compilation of some additional Ada sources, namely rd.adb
and winmainstartup.adb as shown below. Are these files in your project ?
Note the error in my sample, is because Microsoft insists on a filename with
more than 2 characters (Silly Microsoft).

Could you try building manually outside VS with gprbuild. Below are the steps

1) start a VS x64 native command prompt
2) cd to you project directory, you should have RD.gpr in that directory, if
you named your project "RD"
3) run gprbuild -f -v -p -P RD.gpr

In the meantime I'll continue to try and replicate your issue

------ Rebuild All started: Project: RD, Configuration: Debug x64 ------
Compile
   [Ada]          rd.adb
   [Ada]          appoverrides.adb
   [Ada]          winmainstartup.adb
   [Ada]          guitask.adb
   [Ada]          locatortask.adb
   [Ada]          rdxaml.adb
Bind
   [gprbind]      rd.bexch
   [Ada]          rd.ali
RD.vcxproj -> C:\Users\alexg\source\repos\RD\RD\RD\x64\Debug\RD.exe
C:\Users\alexg\source\repos\RD\RD\RD\x64\Debug\AppxManifest.xml : error APPX0501: Validation error. error C00CE169: App manifest validation error: The app manifest must be valid as per schema: Line 10, Column 13, Reason: 'RD' violates minLength constraint of '3'. The attribute 'Name' with value 'RD' failed to parse.
Done building project "RD.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========