Re: Using GtkAda in Ubuntu

[Joe <joesmoe10@gmail.com>]

On Sep 11, 4:39 pm, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> Joe writes:
> > Hey all,
>
> > I'm having some trouble getting GtkAda setup on my computer.
>
> > I'm using Ubuntu 8.10, gtkAda 2.12 and gnat 4.3.1.
>
> > Compiling the simple window example results in this:
>
> > simple.adb:1:06: file "gtk.ads" not found
> > gnatmake: "simple.adb" compilation error
>
> How did you set up your source files and how did you invoke gnatmake?
>
>
>
> > I have installed all the libgtkada's, and gnat-glade installed.
>
> > I think it has to do with the gtkada2-config script. I think the paths
> > that the script looks for are different than what I have. On my system
> > I don't have /usr/lib/gtkada or /usr/include/gtkada. The path for
> > gtkada seems to be /usr/lib/ada/adalib/gtkada2 and /usr/share/ada/
> > adainclude/gtkada2
>
> > I changed the libdir and includedir script variables to the locations
> > on my computer and compiling mostly worked until I got this:
>
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgtkada
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > gnatlink: error when calling /usr/bin/gcc-4.3
> > gnatmake: *** link failed.
>
> > Any help would be appreciated.  Also, is there someway to put the
> > many .ali and .o files somewhere else.
>
> Yes, read /usr/share/doc/libgtkada2-dev/README.Debian and
> /usr/share/ada/adainclude/gtkada2.gpr.
>
> The problem with gtkada2-config is known ashttp://bugs.debian.org/497407
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.

Awesome, got it to work.  I set it up like so:

example.adb
example.gpr
gtkada2.gpr
obj

gnatmake -Pexample

Thanks a lot for the help.