Re: gtkada working on a Ubuntu Machine.... ??&##?!!!!

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:06:38 GMT, Phil wrote:

> I am wondering if someone can give me some pointers on the best way to 
> get gtkada properly installed.

Depends on the Gtk version. Normally, you get the packages and install
them. That's all.

> On either windows or Ubuntu.

For Windows the latest public GtkAda + Gtk is in the GNAT GPL 2014.

Is Ubuntu a Debian clone? Then you install Debian's Gtk and GtkAda
packages.

Make sure you are using same Gtk version on all platforms, because Gtk 2.x
is incompatible with Gtk 3.x. [ GNAT GPL 2014 comes with Gtk 3.8. ]

> I have run the program below on a Ubuntu 12.04 box, and get the message 
> file "gtkada.ads" not found. error message and sample program below.
>
> I was never really confident the installation was done correctly. As the 
> ubuntu software centre already has some components installed or my 
> meddling, and I may have doubled up with a download from Adacore. Was it 
> done in the correct order and with correct paths etc set.
> 
> Any suggestion on what to check first?
> 
> gnatmake -d -P/home/ada/ADAprojects/test1001project.gpr
> gcc-4.6 -c -I- -gnatA /home/ada/ADAprojects/test1001.adb
> test1001.adb:1:06: file "gtkada.ads" not found
> gnatmake: "/home/ada/ADAprojects/test1001.adb" compilation error

Check if the project refers to gtkada.gpr or the corresponding one of the
installation. Antique versions used gtkada2.gpr, if I correctly remember.
GCC 4.6 is pretty ancient for Debian. Should be 4.8 if not 4.9 already.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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