Re: SDL Ada package fails to compile on Mac, gnat 13.1, missing "SDL2_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"

[Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 3:45:41 PM UTC-7, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> On 28/06/2023 22:53, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: 
> 
> >> I heavily use MacPorts. I keep hearing that it is a very bad idea to have MacPorts and HomeBrew concurrently installed on the same machine. Is it at all possible to do this without HomeBrew? Apparently I did not read your documentation carefully enough...I thought that having SDL installed via HomeBrew was optional, not required.
> I didn't get it working on Mac myself, I originally started to get it 
> going using the downloadable binaries you can just drag n drop. 
> 
> Others got it working with brew, afaik.
> > Since I'm not using ALIRE (ALR), but using gnatmake (I'm on a Mac mini with an M1 chip, ALR refuses to get most packages because I don't have a native Ada compiler), I thought that the HomeBrew mention was in regards to using the SDLAda package via ALIRE. 
> > 
> > So that's a different problem requiring a different post :-)
> You're probably better off using git to grab it, then modify the 
> makefile and gpr's for a specific macos macports port, add a new 
> Platform_Type, macosx_macports and add what you need inside the sdlada.gpr. 
> 
> Then you can call make SDL_PLATFORM=macosx_macports SDL_MODE=release to 
> build it. 
> 
> Check whatever sdl2-config --cflags produces on that port. 
> 
> If the headers are in different directories, you'll need to modify the 
> version*.c files with extra #ifdef's for macports.

Hi Luke;

  Thank you for more information.

  This looks a little bit deeper than I feel comfortable :-(

  I'll think about this a bit more and experiment further, but this is definitely in uncharted territory for me.

Thanks,
Ken