Re: Ada on Linux

[Poul-Erik Andreasen <poulerik@pea.dk>]

Paul wrote:
> OK I'll try that because so far I have downloaded over a dozen packages and 
> several versions of some of those, my desk is covered in various scraps of 
> paper, sticky notes, CDs and the odd empty coffee cup!  But on the bright 
> side I'm now very familiar with ./configure, make, make install and many 
> obscure linux sites. I seem to have spent days watching script files 
> whizzing by and wondering if all those warnings I see for a few milliseconds 
> or so are important!
> 
> And to cap it off my ubuntu install is now not booting (I'm back in WinXP 
> with a blank Ubuntu screen in the background).
> 
> Actually I've used apt-get install a few times but it didn't occur to me to 
> ask for gnat-glade. Perhaps its a case of can't see the forest for the 
> trees.
> 
> Paul
> 
You can trust Ludovic on this one. He is the on who makes the Debian 
pakages, an they just work out of the box. Besides making a souce 
install of the hole gnat tool-chain is very daunting task, but thats not 
my issue.

You are mentioning GLADE/GNAT/GTKADA in one sentence wich gives me the 
   suspicion that you are taking about GLADE the GUI-builder this one:

http://glade.gnome.org/

wich is not the same as Gnat-Glade this one

http://gnat-glade.sourceforge.net/


To install the GUI you simply have to write

Apt-get install glade

But be of ware that there are som different versions of it
and the standart maybe different on Ubuntu (i am sitting on a debian 
system) Some time ago the standart version did not have a Ada.

And the version 3 dont have any code generation at all.
that is to be find in the GtkAda package


good luck

Poul-Erik Andreasen