Re: ANN: VisualAda (Ada Integration for Visual Studio 2017 & 2019) release 1.2.0

[Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 8:23:08 AM UTC-4, alby....@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 9:34:51 PM UTC+10, Jere wrote:
> > On Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 4:28:00 AM UTC-4, alby....@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Dear Ada Community 
> > > 
> > > VisualAda version 1.2.0 has been released 
> > > 
> > > New Features, fixes include the following 
> > > 
> > > - Added compiler switches syntax checking, symantic checking, code page and wide character set encoding
> > > - Fixed bug - some compiler options were not set in GPR file, even though they were set in the vcxproj file
> > > - Dynamically determine Target when creating new projects. Supported Targets are currently (Win32 -> i686-- and x64 -> x86_64--). ARM Targets will be forthcoming.
> > > - Check validity of determined Target when building a project, for example the Target could have be set to a specific gcc triplet, blank or 'Unknown'. Resulting in either a info, warning or error message respectively.
> > > - Dynamically determine root directories for each target when creating new projects (only applicable to projects that rely on the Microsoft Linker, such as Winrt/UWP based applications)
> > > - Fixed bug - Msbuild failures caused by inadvertent references to VS 2015 dll's
> > > 
> > > Please feel free to download the free plugin from the following URL 
> > > 
> > > https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AlexGamper.VisualAda 
> > > 
> > > Note: 
> > > 
> > > if you have issues with installation, please respond to this post, and I will 
> > > endeavour to resolve as soon as possible. In the long term I intend to setup 
> > > a specific GitHub project, where issues/improvements can be made for me to action. 
> > > 
> > > Thanks 
> > > 
> > > Alex
> > 
> > As I get time, I'll mess with this and try it out.  Kids give me limited time.  
> > I did clone the winrt_runtime and start messing with it today.  I noticed a 
> > warning:
> > 
> >  [C]            cio.c
> > \winrt_runtime\cpp\cio.c:45:16: warning: '__acrt_iob_func' redeclared without dllimport attribute: previous dllimport ignored [-Wattributes]
> >   FILE* __cdecl __acrt_iob_func(unsigned);
> > 
> > Just a warning, but should I start an issue for it on your github repo 
> > in case it is important?  This is with msys2, GNAT/GCC 8.2.0
> 
> Hi Jere
> 
>    Yes , please raise an issue on GitHub, so we can keep track. Note I did see
>    something similar to this and was caused by using an earlier version of MSYS2
>    but 8.2 should be fine. Try a clean git pull and build ? Note yo should see
> 
> 
> Alex

I raised both the warning and the install as issues on github.  I didn't
know if they were related, so I split them as separate issues.  Hopefully
that is ok.