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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: is getting OpenGL to work with Ada a lost cause?
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:44:38 +0000 (UTC)
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Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com> wrote:

> Makefiles are terrible in-general -- but (/especially/) the ones which
> are distributed w/ AdaCore's libs: they  *really* tend to assume a *nix environment.
> 
> Making me use a *nix environment layer like msys (or cygwin) to compile
> Ada, which is **supposed to be very cross-platform** is actually pretty stupid.

The majority of these makefiles are simplistic and only make the building
and installing easier by wrapping for files, so if you don't want to use a
shell and type make, then read the Makefile and issue the gnatmake/gprbuild
command.