Re: Building Matreshka on Windows

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>]

Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

[about all Ada projects]

> Every Ada compiler includes a tool for building a system based on the
> dependency information in the code. This information is one of Ada's
> major strengths. One has to learn the parameters to this tool, of
> course, but then building becomes one line, easily stored somewhere,
> such as a script.

Yes.  But don't you need to have two versions of that script, one for
Microsoft hosted compilers, and one for Unix hosted compilers?  Using
GNAT project files, you can typically get away with having only one.

> So what does a program such as gprbuild buy you?

If your projects only contain Ada sources - nothing that "gnatmake"
didn't have as well.

Since I typically work on multi-language projects (Ada,
Mercurial/Subversion, Macks, C), "gprbuild" makes a big difference for
me.

But I'm not at all fond of "gprconfig".  I'm in the middle of figuring
out how I can avoid "gprconfig", and provide ready to use ".cgpr" files
instead of providing XML files for "gprconfig", which have to be
installed before the project can be built.

Greetings,

Jacob
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