Re: GPS and GTK

[Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com>]

On Sep 26, 10:40 pm, Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>
> > Also PATH should contain "C:\GNAT\2011\GtkAda\bin". Beware that GIMP
> > and GPS also come with Gtk binaries, you have to choose the order in
> > which they are loaded. I am usually using GIMP binaries first, because
> > they have more recent versions. But that could be incompatible of
> > course.
>
> I wouldn't know about that.
>
> My first thought (and the way I meant to recommend) was to install
> GtkAda *in the same place as* the compiler, not one level down from it.
>
> I've just tried this, and the installation dialog asks 2 questions: what
> compiler (default C:\GNAT\2011) and where to put GtkAda (default
> C:\GtkAda).
>
> I edited this so that "where to put GtkAda" read the same as the
> compiler location, ie C:\GNAT\2011, and installed.
>
> Now when I go to the demos, for example
> c:\GNAT\2011\share\examples\gtkada\calendar_combo,
> I type just "gnatmake -Pdefault" and the demo builds as expected.

Simon's advice is perfect. It's a pain to set ADA_LIBRARY_PATH and
PATH on every machine you'll ever deal with forever or else add the
copious path information needed in build commands.

In my installation, gtkada.gpr is in lib/gnat .