Re: GetAdaNow.com

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

On Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 2:26:18 PM UTC-4, Felix Krause wrote:
> On 2014-11-23 05:30:43 +0000, David Botton said:
> > 
> > http://GetAdaNow.com
> > 
> > The page is designed to make it as easy as currently possible to get 
> > new developers set up to use Ada and pointed to some updated resources.
> > 
> > If you have any suggestions please let me know.
> 
> I just tried to use TDM-GCC-64 along with the gpr-tools linked on
> 
>     http://getadanow.com/#get_windows
> 
> gprbuild does manage to compile my code, but as soon as I start my 
> executable, it exits with return code 127.
> 
> I then tried to compile my code with gnatmake from TDM-GCC instead. 
> gnatmake complains that -P is deprecated and will soon be removed, but 
> it did manage to generate an executable. That executable works without 
> problems. So it seems to me that there's something wrong with the 
> gprbuild provided on your site, or that instructions on how to properly 
> set it up are missing. Can you shed some light on this?
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Felix Krause

I haven't tried out the 64bit version of TDM-GCC, but with both the 
32bit version of TDM-GCC and mingw64, I had problems getting gprbuild 
to correctly work.  I didn't have the problem you did specifically, 
but I ran into problems both building it (because I couldn't get the 
provided binary to work) and running the provided binary (it would 
most often fail to run make install on Gnoga.   

The only configuration I have gotten working currently is now mingw64 
with the Gnoga provided gprbuild, but I had to run gprconfig to generate 
a cgpr file to point it to the correct target (the Gnoga provided one 
is for 32bit and mingw64 is a diff target).  I haven't gone back to 
see if I could do something similar with TDM-GCC, but I imagine I 
could generate a similar type of cgpr file.

Unfortunately none of my issues involved programs not running correctly 
after building.  I'm actually surprised it had that kind of effect since 
it only uses external tools to do the building.  I wonder if a 
particular default setting it uses internally for GCC is causing 
the problem?  Sorry I don't have anything better for you.