From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a7e1cc697e6a4b51 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Chris Morgan Subject: Re: newbie problem - how to Date: 1998/11/06 Message-ID: <87g1bwi7gj.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 409231610 Sender: cm@mihalis.ix.netcom.com References: <03F1770557943D79.F5DA81D0384C72CE.353F95DB3C8D0DD5@library-proxy.airnews.net> Organization: Linux Hackers Unlimited X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Nov 06 8:02:37 PM CST 1998 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-11-06T20:02:37-06:00 List-Id: Dana Holland 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 -- Chris Morgan Home Web Server - http://mihalis.dyn.ml.org/index.html