Re: Building an encapsulated library that uses GNAT sockets under Windows

[ahlan@marriott.org]

On Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 11:16:53 PM UTC+2, Simon Wright wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
> > Can [gprlib] build a static equivalent too? I.e. a static library
> > containing a closure of all referenced objects plus initialization
> > code.
> 
> I'm not sure it's relevant, but I posted a bug[1] on gnatmake & static
> standalone libraries; I sent AdaCore a similar report on gprbuild, no
> reply.
> 
> The problem was, for a static SAL, the using Ada main program needs to
> see all the ALIs for it to be sure to call in all the dylibs required by
> the library; so if e.g. libgnarl was only called by  non-interface units
> it would get linked but not elaborated.
> 
> I wanted to use SALs because they automatically populate the include
> directory with relevant source.
> 
> The GNAT GPL 2015 version of the patch is
> 
> diff --git a/src/gprlib.adb b/src/gprlib.adb
> --- a/src/gprlib.adb
> +++ b/src/gprlib.adb
> @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@
>        Status       : Boolean;
>  
>     begin
> -      if Standalone = No then
> +      if Standalone = No or Static then
>           for Index in 1 .. ALIs.Last loop
>              declare
>                 Destination : constant String :=
> 
> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56616

Dear Simon,

Unfortunately your bug fix isn't included in the sources maintained by AdaCore at GitHub.
So thank you for the improvement :-)

Regards,
Ahlan