Re: Thinking of using Ada for a job at home. Couple of questions first.

[jonathan <johnscpg@googlemail.com>]

On Mar 10, 5:46 pm, Charmed Snark <sn...@cogeco.ca> wrote:
> jonathan expounded in news:49fb3586-981d-46a8-a023-f43c8fa47c36
> @t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com:
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> > On Mar 9, 9:57 pm, Charmed Snark <sn...@cogeco.ca> wrote:
> >> jonathan expounded in news:dc294dc4-c89d-4cc0-9826-ac2848277771
> >> @o3g2000yqb.googlegroups.com:
> >> > On Mar 9, 2:49 pm, Warren Gay <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> This is the one main issue that made me give up on Ada a few
> >> >> years back. It seemed that every project that I wanted
> >> >> to do, required me to create a "binding" for this and
> >> >> another for that. Sing "It's a C/C++ world after all".
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> >> >> Another approach might be to create a "binding translator".
> >> >> Feed a C/C++ preprocessed output into the translator and
> >> >> crank out some ugly but functional package(s).
> >> > Some more detail on the AdaCore binding translator Jacob mentioned
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> >> > Recently I decided I wanted a binding to C package, googled for
> >> > a tutorial, and found gem 59 and gem 60
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> >> >http://www.adacore.com/2009/02/23/gem-59/
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> >> > Thanks AdaCore! I couldn't have written a binding myself even
> >> > in the easiest limit. All I did was type (iirc)
> >> > g++ -c -fdump-ada-spec -C file_name.h
> >> > Jonathan
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> >> Hey, that is good news! I'll definitely check it out.
> >> Warren
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> > I should add that I did not put it to a severe test.
> > The binding it created was 22 files, about 1500 semicolons.
> > I trimmed it to 1 file, 26 semicolons in length to get
> > my program working.  It would have been more work
> > to fix everything (though once you figure out what can
> > go wrong its not as hard).
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> > Jonathan
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> I do most of my work under cygwin (laptop) since that is
> what I have with me on the road and at work. But the current
> cygwin versions don't seem to support -fdump-ada-spec.
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> But hopefully someday, it'll be everywhere.
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> Warren

I used the GNAT GPL for Linux.  There are several
GPL versions for Windows, but I don't know how they
will interact with cygwin.

https://libre.adacore.com/libre/download/

To start, I just registered, installed in /tmp, and
tried it out to see if it worked. I am looking forward
to the 2010 version!

Jonathan