Re: Gnat Glade newbie questions

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>]

(Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr> replied to me privately and
comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org, but I did not see his reply on the
newsgroup.  I forward it here -- Ludovic Brenta.)

On Thursday 25 March 2004 20:34, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> "Roger Blum" <roger_blum@swissonline.ch> writes:
> > - All my tries to build and use GNAT Glade 3.15p from the source failed.
> >   Has anybody a working binary of GNAT Glade 3.15p for Windows and/or
> > Linux (gnatdist and Garlic) or how can I build it from source without a
> > lot of error messages?

You need to compile with gnat 3.15p.  Also, you may need to run autoconf
(or something like that, I forget what, maybe automake).

> > - Can gnatdist build all the necessary executables just on the base
> >   of correct categorization of the packages or do I have to create 3
> >   main procedures/packages?

You need to supply gnatdist with a configuration file (see the
documentation).

> > - Will the distributed processes generated that way migrate on openMosix?

No (I tried it once).  openMosix won't migrate multithreaded programs,
and glade adds some threads to your program to handle the remote
procedure calls.

Duncan.