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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.36.124.203 with SMTP id a194mr5983883itd.35.1502728564041; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 09:36:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.80.211 with SMTP id m202mr61155itb.7.1502728564016; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 09:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.unit0.net!peer03.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!m34no1352933iti.0!news-out.google.com!19ni2934itw.0!nntp.google.com!m34no1350098iti.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 09:36:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=134.223.230.156; posting-account=NPOiQgoAAABT-X7vccBlgB6-6nM41ezr NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.223.230.156 References: <6853df96-f239-4770-953a-cfdcb2d733fe@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <5cdee1c8-48b2-45aa-b5bb-5fed3d0b2d62@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: New to ada, what is gb? From: Josiah Smith Injection-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:36:04 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Received-Bytes: 2286 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1438659878 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47725 Date: 2017-08-14T09:36:03-07:00 List-Id: 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.