Re: try to bluid gvd

[Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com>]

ferro.francesco@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> ok i have a programme for build a programme, it's that :
> [url]http://mirror.etf.bg.ac.yu/freebsd/distfiles/gvd-1.2.5-src.tgz[/url]
> 
> so, there aren't ports for freebsd so i try to bluild me the src:
> 
> i reade the INSTALL and for build it's requiert GtkAda (i have the last
> version 2.4.0, and gnat 3.13 or highter (i have gnat 2005)
> 
> ok.. i type
> 
> $ ./configure
> $ make
> [CODE]
> make CFLAGS="-g -O2" -C pixmaps
> make CFLAGS="-g -O2" -C gnat
> gcc -c -gnatg -g -O2
> gcc: No input files specified
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/home/frantch/gvd-1.2.5/gnat.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/home/frantch/gvd-1.2.5.
> 
> [/CODE]
> 
> ok... i try with gmake
> 
> $gmake
> [CODE]
> gmake CFLAGS="-g -O2" -C pixmaps
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/home/frantch/gvd-1.2.5/pixmaps'
> gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/frantch/gvd-1.2.5/pixmaps'
> gmake CFLAGS="-g -O2" -C gnat
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/home/frantch/gvd-1.2.5/gnat'
> gcc -c -gnatg -g -O2 g-expect.adb
> gcc: g-expect.adb: Ada compiler not installed on this system
> gmake[1]: *** [g-expect.o] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/frantch/gvd-1.2.5/gnat'
> gmake: *** [gnat] Error 2
> 
>  [/CODE]
> 
> hmm it say i havn't a ADa compiler on my systeme... but it strange i
> HAVE a ada compiler (gnatmake.. etc...) and it work for me.. but there
> no..
> 
> 
> pleas anyone can help me?
> 
> thank's
> 
> 
> ps: (i try to compil gps it's same error...)
> 


First, the standalone GVD is no longer updated since the debugging 
capability was rolled into GPS. Not sure what the last version of GtkAda 
was that it compiled against but it has not been updated in a few years.

Second, sounds like you might have one of those installations where the 
gcc driver that knows about ada is gnat-gcc or gcc-gnat or something 
like that and the vanilla gcc is not Ada aware. In some cases you can 
work around this by defining CC before the configure/build process to be 
the correct gcc driver...In some cases, that won't work. Not sure about GVD.


Third, GPS appears (to me at least) to be very difficult to build. I 
don't think anyone on the gnuada sourceforge group has managed to get a 
recent version to build.

You don't say what OS you are on. The fact that make is not gnumake 
seems to rule out a linux distro but you have GNAT 2005? If you have 
that, there should be a pre-built GPS available too?


Note that if you are just looking for a debugger front end, I have found 
that ddd interacts with an Ada aware gdb fairly well....