Re: Ada for 1st year students

[John McCormick <mccormick@cs.uni.edu>]

On Oct 21, 6:16 am, amado.al...@gmail.com wrote:
> /*
> AdaGIDE has a few quirks, cannot handle paths containing spaces, and I
> cannot find how to pass options to the compiler (I need the -gnatW8
> switch to write in Unicode, I don't understand why this is not the
> default behaviour of GNAT, of all tools actually, but that's another
> story)
> */

You can add all the compiler options you like through the Tools-
>Global Settings.  This creates a file called gnat.ago that you can
copy to any directory to reuse those settings.  You can have one set
of switches for debug development and another for release (production
programs).  The choice between the modes is made from the tool bar.  I
use a lot of style switches in my beginning classes.  Here are my
AdaGIDE settings:

-gnaty3aAeiklM110rtx -gnatwcdfgkmruw

I don't have problems with spaces in path names with AdaGIDE.  I did
have that problem before.  But I'm not sure whether it was an upgrade
to a later version of AdaGIDE or an later version of GNAT that solved
the problem.

John