Re: GNAT for NT Linking Problem

[Jonas Nygren <jonas@joy.ericsson.se>]

Matt O'Hara wrote:
> 
> Gentlepeople -
> 
> I'm in the process of porting a Solaris Ada program to the PC, using
> GNAT 304a for Windows NT (freshly ftp'd and installed). This Ada program
> uses the C libraries extensively (basic things, like fputc, fgetc, feof,
> toupper, etc).
> 
> All the Ada code compiles correctly, yet when I try to link I am getting
> errors referencing some of these C libraries. For example, it cant find
> things like toupper or feof, yet it (evidently, based on the lack of
> error message) can find things like tolower and fputc. Considering that
> these routines should come from the same sets of libraries, it seems odd
> that the linker could find one thing but not the others.
> 
> I had similar problems when I tried installing and using the GNAT 301a
> compiler.
> 
> Any ideas?

Gnat uses some of the stdio routines to implement Ada file-io. 
Look in the 'adaincludes' directory for i-cstrea.ads
and you find what is available via Gnat. If you need more you would
have to include these interfaces yourself via some library or .obj
file.

> 
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> Matthew H. O'Hara
> Principal S/W Engineer
> Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems, Eagan, MN
> 612-456-3228               matthew.h.ohara@lmco.com