Re: New to ada, what is gb?

[Josiah Smith <jsmith613@gatech.edu>]

On Monday, August 14, 2017 at 12:19:14 PM UTC-4, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2017-08-14 17:48, Josiah Smith wrote:
> > I'm new to ada and I can't figure out what gb is.
> 
> it looks like bindings to some third party library.
> 
> > As used here:
> > http://www.sigada.org/locals/dc/200204_Beard_Image_Viewer_Window.Ada
> > It obviously has something to do with the GUI, but whenever I build,
> > the compiler searches for a gb.ads file. Is gb build into the compiler
> > or do I need to download a library from somewhere? (I'm using GPS 2017)
> 
> No, it is not standard Ada. BTW, all standard libraries are described in 
> Ada Reference Manual:
> 
>     http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-TOC.html
> 
> P.S. You could use a less outlandish GUI library with Ada. There are 
> Gtk, Qt, Win32Ada bindings as well as frameworks on top of Windows API, 
> GWindows, Claw and also a Web-based GUI framework gnoga.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Thank you.  I'm tasked with migrating a program from ObjectAda to GNAT.  I think that it is a package for the Win32 bindings for the ObjectAda compiler.