From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fdb2c3421a169874 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "David C. Hoos, Sr" Subject: Re: GNAT & Linux & OS calls & Tk perhaps ? Date: 1998/09/20 Message-ID: <4RA0VIO59GA.180@samson.airnet.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 393100541 References: <3604863B.590E10F1@intergate.bc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Date: 1998-09-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Gerald Gutierrez wrote in message <3604863B.590E10F1@intergate.bc.ca>... >Hi all. > >Thanks to those who enlightened me about Ada. I was told that the Ada >compiler I have likely already does have some sort of bindings to the >operating system it is being used on. > >Perhaps I'm just not used to Ada, but I'm having trouble figuring out >what the bindings are and how I can use them. I'm using GNAT 3.10p ( I >think, I'm not at my machine now ) on RedHat 5.1 Linux. I'd like to be >able to access the system & library calls. It would be really great if I >can have some sort of access to Tk for UI purposes as well ( and so >implicitly Tcl ). Is this possible ? > >Someone please point me in a direction where I can find this >information. > >Thanks. > >Please forward replies to gutier@intergate.bc.ca. In addition to the references to GNAT code cited by Robert Dewar, here are some other suggestions: There is a TCL/Tk binding to Ada available at: "http://tash.calspan.com/" For OS functionality bindings there is a POSIX Ada binding (1003.5b) specifications and implementation at "http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/ftp/pub/PART/FLORIST/". The implementation is called FLORIST, and is for use with GNAT. This is an active project, with new releases appearing from time to time. David C. Hoos, Sr.