Re: Ada "library only" compiler ?

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Vasiliy,

> Perhaps I am out of the subject, but these are definitely different
> things. Interfacing to any Win32 DLL is much simpler (since there are
> only linkable objects and clearly specified data structures),

I'm probably living in another land then. The above does not makes sense
at all to me. There is no clearly specified data structures or whatever.
A DLL is a container. To use it one need to interface to it, from Ada,
from C, from Pascal, from Python... And for this you need to have a
stable and clear API which has nothing to do with DLL.

The Microsoft Win32 code happen to be in DLLs, but the same code could
be provided as static library. No more or less problem. The same API,
the same way to use it, the same need for an interface to it in C, Ada,
Pascal, Python...

Or we are really not speaking about the same thing...

Pascal.

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