Re: ANN: VisualAda (Ada Integration for Visual Studio 2017 & 2019) release 1.1.12

[alby.gamper@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 6:57:28 AM UTC+10, Greg wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> 1. I think I had canceled a build earlier, which is why we didn't see those two "missing" adb files. 
> 2. Forgotten that SYSTEM paths come before USER paths in Windows, so added some entries to SYSTEM path for MSYS and rebooted.
> 3. Created a new XAML app in VS 2019 called "RaceDirector" (which is what "RD" stood for, just got lazy.)
> 4. In VS project properties, "C:\MSYS64\..." picked up correctly for the 3 "Gnat Root" directories.
> 5. Consequently, I proceeded to build the solution WITHOUT a change to the project properties.
> 5. Built "RaceDirectorXaml" fine.
> 6. Building "RaceDirector" yields this:
> 
> 1>------ Build started: Project: RaceDirector, Configuration: Debug x64 ------
> 1>Compile
> 1>   [Ada]          racedirector.adb
> 1>   [Ada]          appoverrides.adb
> 1>   [Ada]          winmainstartup.adb
> 1>   [Ada]          guitask.adb
> 1>   [Ada]          locatortask.adb
> 1>   [Ada]          racedirectorxaml.adb
> 1>Bind
> 1>   [gprbind]      racedirector.bexch
> 1>   [Ada]          racedirector.ali
> 1>MSBUILD : error MSB4166: Child node "2" exited prematurely. Shutting down. Diagnostic information may be found in files in "C:\Users\Dad\AppData\Local\Temp\" and will be named MSBuild_*.failure.txt. This location can be changed by setting the MSBUILDDEBUGPATH environment variable to a different directory.
> 1>A task was canceled.
> 1>A task was canceled.
> ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
> 
> Notice I did NOT get the ...
> 1>gprbind: invocation of gnatbind failed 
> 1>gprbuild: unable to bind rd.adb 
> ... but still a build error. And still cannot find a MSBuild_*.failure.txt in the indicated directory.
> 
> NEXT ...
> 
> Launched a x64 Native VS2019 command prompt:
> 
> gprbuild -f -v -p -P RaceDirector.gpr
> ==============Error messages for file: C:\home\dad\dev2\RaceDirector\RaceDirector\RaceDirector\RaceDirector.gpr
>      4. with "WinRt.gpr";
>         >>> unknown project file: "WinRt.gpr"
> gprbuild: "RaceDirector.gpr" processing failed
> 
> So this has GOT to be a directory/path I'm not setting somewhere.
> 
> Onward, SO close :)
> Greg

Hi Greg

Apologies for the delay in responding! Time zone differences always make it
hard to quickly resolve some issues. Anyway, I have rebuilt my environment to
use GNAT Community edition 2018 (which uses gcc version 7.3, rather than the
MSYS2 environment, which uses gcc 8.3)

I have found some issues with Gnat CE 2018, (not in the compiler itself, But
with the underlying mingw32 runtime library) and in no way is this a
fault of AdaCore or the MSYS2 project, Just my inability to resource my own
time to test this under BOTH environments. :-(

I believe I have a solution working for both environments, But I need some time
to test the changes to the WinRT runtime via the ACATS test suite. Please bear
with me (should/might take a day or so to resolve)

If you are keen to use the MSYS2/mingew64 GCC based environment as an 
alternative, I am happy to help you set this up. Its fairly straight forward
to get up and running on windows, and I can assist (ie post a wiki on my GitHub)
if needed.

Alex