Where is GNAT putting my ADA .exe

Where is GNAT putting my ADA .exe

[Andy Social]

Hi

I am playing around with Ada again.  I swore when I compiled a small Ada before with an older version of GNAT, it created an .exe file.  I am not seeing that anywhere with the new GNAT compiler?


Thanks

Re: Where is GNAT putting my ADA .exe

[Simon Wright]

Andy Social <andys@ntso.com> writes:

> I am playing around with Ada again.  I swore when I compiled a small
> Ada before with an older version of GNAT, it created an .exe file.  I
> am not seeing that anywhere with the new GNAT compiler?

Tell us a bit more about how you're playing.

Are you using a project (.gpr) file? If so, and it contains e.g.

   for Object_Dir use "obj";  -- subdirectory of project directory

then any executables are created in obj/ unless you've also got

   for Exec_Dir use "bin";   -- or e.g. "." for project directory

(I find this behaviour infuriating, but there you go)

Re: Where is GNAT putting my ADA .exe

[Andy Social]

Hi Simon

I actually did get it to work.  Not quite sure yet exactly but here are some of the things I played around with:

Edit/Preferences/Default Builder is now gnatmake

Made sure I started with a new project

Made a simple Hello World and saved as .adb

Clicked Build/Project/Build and Compile

And that seemed to work.   Some one at Stackoverflow said to change to the 32bit Win version of GNAT but I don't think that was it.  I will test that theory tonight


Thanks for chiming in.

Re: Where is GNAT putting my ADA .exe

[Simon Wright]

Andy Social <andys@ntso.com> writes:

> I actually did get it to work.  Not quite sure yet exactly but here
> are some of the things I played around with:
>
> Edit/Preferences/Default Builder is now gnatmake
>
> Made sure I started with a new project
>
> Made a simple Hello World and saved as .adb
>
> Clicked Build/Project/Build and Compile
>
> And that seemed to work.

It seem that you're using GPS. Is this the 2018 Community Edition?
(details _help_ when diagnosing problems).

>                         Some one at Stackoverflow said to change to
> the 32bit Win version of GNAT but I don't think that was it.  I will
> test that theory tonight


How did you tag your SO question? (I now realise I've been missing
questions because I've only been looking at [ada]; there's [gnat] and
[gnat-gps] as well)

Re: Where is GNAT putting my ADA .exe

[Alejandro R. Mosteo]

On 28/06/2018 09:23, Simon Wright wrote:
> Andy Social <andys@ntso.com> writes:
> 
>> I actually did get it to work.  Not quite sure yet exactly but here
>> are some of the things I played around with:
>>
>> Edit/Preferences/Default Builder is now gnatmake
>>
>> Made sure I started with a new project
>>
>> Made a simple Hello World and saved as .adb
>>
>> Clicked Build/Project/Build and Compile
>>
>> And that seemed to work.
> 
> It seem that you're using GPS. Is this the 2018 Community Edition?
> (details _help_ when diagnosing problems).
> 
>>                          Some one at Stackoverflow said to change to
>> the 32bit Win version of GNAT but I don't think that was it.  I will
>> test that theory tonight
> 
> 
> How did you tag your SO question? (I now realise I've been missing
> questions because I've only been looking at [ada]; there's [gnat] and
> [gnat-gps] as well)

Also [ada95], [ada2012], [gprbuild].

Re: Where is GNAT putting my ADA .exe

[Simon Wright]

"Alejandro R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com> writes:

>> How did you tag your SO question? (I now realise I've been missing
>> questions because I've only been looking at [ada]; there's [gnat] and
>> [gnat-gps] as well)
>
> Also [ada95], [ada2012], [gprbuild].

Thanks for that! Also [gprinstall]. 

Re: Where is GNAT putting my ADA .exe

[Olivier Henley]

Please install Everything on your windows machine (https://www.voidtools.com/)

It indexes, real-time, your whole machine(do not worry it does not bloat your system at all. I repeat, not at all.)

Therefore you can ask for any file pattern, eg. my_ada_soft*.exe will return you instantly where the files matching the pattern are located on your system.

It will save you countless headaches.