Re: Ada and MidiShare

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"Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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 > FMOD does support MIDI but only on Windows I think, check it out:
> http://www.fmod.org/
>
> Pascal.

Looks like a nice library, but no Ada bindings  (Incidentally, Python has
bindings to FMOD(!)).

ATM I'm looking at the possibility of using Win32Ada to build a minimal
MIDI/audio I/O library. If that fails I will try to use C/gcc and the winmm
library, then make bindings for Ada. This route looks like it should be
doable with a minimun of work, although my lack of both Windows and Ada
experience will probably lead me through a fairly long path to get there. I
will report on my findings to this group.

BTW: is there any reason to not use Win32Ada in this day and age (the GNAT
one)? It looks like development was stopped many years ago.

The more I look around, the more I think that what Ada needs is a very
minimal binding to the (Win,Mac,Linux) host platforms MIDI and audio I/O,
leaving out all the huge (C/C++) libraries. Then this minimal I/O library
can be used to build a "native standard" Ada MIDI/audio library "the way
it's meant to be" (tm) . Portaudio, SDL, FMOD and their siblings are surely
nice libraries, but in this case (minimal I/O) they are overkill.

  Are
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