Re: newbie problem - how to

[Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com>]

Dana Holland <dana@nav.cc.tx.us> writes:

> For a class I'm taking, we're supposed to make a modification to an
> existing Ada program.  I've been able to do that just fine - my problem
> is with getting the program to compile on GNAT.  The instructor gave us
> step-by-step instructions to compile, but it appears that one of the
> commands is perhaps mistyped.  The first step is to create a library
> with the following command:
> amklib adalib

GNAT doesn't use a special file called a library, you produce library
information files just by going ahead and compiling the Ada source code.

> 
> The system doesn't understand that command.  Does that look familiar to
> anyone?  I can go on and attempt to compile my specification, body, and
> main program segments, but it tells me that "buftask.ali is missing" -
> and I'm assuming  .ali is a library (haven't been able to find that in
> the documentation yet).

buftask.ali is the Ada Library Information file (.ali) for buftask -
an Ada unit you must have a mention of somewhere in your source
code. Have you compiled every source file? You should be able to just
do gnatmake main if main happens to be the name of the main unit.

We may need more information to really help.

Chris
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