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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Creating mixed language static libraries with gpr files?
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 07:35:38 -0800 (PST)
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Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
> Markus Schoepflin wrote:
> > Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>
> >> Markus Schoepflin wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>
> >>> Using gcc 4.3.3, I'm trying to create a static library that contains
> >>> both object files created from Ada and C.
>
> > [...]
>
> >> Off the top of my head, this requires that you use gprmake instead of
> >> gnatmake. gprmake is part of GPS; if you have GPS on your system, then
> >> maybe you have gprmake too. If you don't have it, you can still use a
> >> Makefile to complement your project file. You can easily add an object
> >> file to an existing static library with "ar rt libLIBRARY.a
> >> object_file_produced_from_c.o".
>
> > Thank you for your answer.
>
> > gprmake seems pretty undocumented, but I found the documentation for
> > something called gprbuild which looks like it would be up to the job.
>
> > As I don't use GPS, I will probably take the Makefile route.
>
> I suspect that gprbuild is supposed to obsolete gprmake. Sometime ago I
> tried to find some info on this but couldn't arrive at anything definite. For
> sure gprmake existed prior to gprbuild, and some bugs in gprmake are no
> longer in gprbuild.
>
> I'm building somewhat complex executables with a mix of Ada/C/C++ with
> gprbuild with zero problems, so I expect you'll be lucky too.

The author Vincent Celier did a presentation of GPRBuild at FOSDEM
2009; the slides are online. AFAIU, GPRBuild is currently available
only to paying customers. It will be part of GNAT GPL 2009 Edition for
the general public.

--
Ludovic Brenta.