Re: ANN: VisualAda (Ada Integration for Visual Studio 2017 & 2019) release 1.2.0

[Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 7:34:51 AM UTC-4, Jere wrote:
> On Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 4:28:00 AM UTC-4, alby....@gmail.com wrote:
> > Dear Ada Community 
> > 
> > VisualAda version 1.2.0 has been released 
> > 
> > New Features, fixes include the following 
> > 
> > - Added compiler switches syntax checking, symantic checking, code page and wide character set encoding
> > - Fixed bug - some compiler options were not set in GPR file, even though they were set in the vcxproj file
> > - Dynamically determine Target when creating new projects. Supported Targets are currently (Win32 -> i686-- and x64 -> x86_64--). ARM Targets will be forthcoming.
> > - Check validity of determined Target when building a project, for example the Target could have be set to a specific gcc triplet, blank or 'Unknown'. Resulting in either a info, warning or error message respectively.
> > - Dynamically determine root directories for each target when creating new projects (only applicable to projects that rely on the Microsoft Linker, such as Winrt/UWP based applications)
> > - Fixed bug - Msbuild failures caused by inadvertent references to VS 2015 dll's
> > 
> > Please feel free to download the free plugin from the following URL 
> > 
> > https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AlexGamper.VisualAda 
> > 
> > Note: 
> > 
> > if you have issues with installation, please respond to this post, and I will 
> > endeavour to resolve as soon as possible. In the long term I intend to setup 
> > a specific GitHub project, where issues/improvements can be made for me to action. 
> > 
> > Thanks 
> > 
> > Alex
> 
> As I get time, I'll mess with this and try it out.  Kids give me limited time.  
> I did clone the winrt_runtime and start messing with it today.  I noticed a 
> warning:
> 
>  [C]            cio.c
> \winrt_runtime\cpp\cio.c:45:16: warning: '__acrt_iob_func' redeclared without dllimport attribute: previous dllimport ignored [-Wattributes]
>   FILE* __cdecl __acrt_iob_func(unsigned);
> 
> Just a warning, but should I start an issue for it on your github repo 
> in case it is important?  This is with msys2, GNAT/GCC 8.2.0

Not sure if related, but when I run the gprinstall command, it fails with:

$ gprinstall -f -p -P Winrt_Runtime.gpr
Install project Winrt_Runtime
gprinstall: error: file does not exist '\winrt_runtime\./lib/libother.a'

which definitely is not there, so maybe the gprbuild script missed
something?  I did configure the gpr file as instructed.  I'll look around
some of your other posts to see if someone else ran into the same thing
but you might consider updating your readme, if there is another dependency
for the runtime (maybe it is just a build error of some sort...I didn't
receive any errors though, just the warning I mentioned before).