ada and gtkada: dos window

ada and gtkada: dos window

[Jesse Farmer]

Hi

I just compiled some examples of gtkada in pcgrasp w/ gnat under win98.  The 
work just fine, but I am wondering about this Dos window that pops up behind 
the application.  Is there any way to compile an Ada program into a true Win32 
executable?  So this DOS window won't appear?

Why is this dos window appearing?  because the example compiled into a simple 
executable?

Thanks

-Jesse

Re: ada and gtkada: dos window

[David C. Hoos, Sr.]

he window appears because you didn't tell the linker that your program
is a Windows program. To do so, requires passing the option -mwindows
to the linker.

One good way to do this is to put in your main program source code the
following pragma:

pragma Linker_Options("-mwindows");

Jesse Farmer <tujuggernaut@crosswinds.net> wrote in message
news:suifvogbtc8b09@corp.supernews.com...
> Hi
>
> I just compiled some examples of gtkada in pcgrasp w/ gnat under win98.
The
> work just fine, but I am wondering about this Dos window that pops up
behind
> the application.  Is there any way to compile an Ada program into a true
Win32
> executable?  So this DOS window won't appear?
>
> Why is this dos window appearing?  because the example compiled into a
simple
> executable?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Jesse
>

Re: ada and gtkada: dos window

[Jeff Creem]

"David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote in message
news:KKeG5.7236$2d3.1789665@newsrump.sjc.telocity.net...
> he window appears because you didn't tell the linker that your program
> is a Windows program. To do so, requires passing the option -mwindows
> to the linker.
>
> One good way to do this is to put in your main program source code the
> following pragma:
>
> pragma Linker_Options("-mwindows");
>


This advice is correct but I prefer to put things like this in a build
script/makefile since when this
program is moved to Linux or some other non Win32 environment the -mwindows
will need to be removed.

Re: ada and gtkada: dos window

[aalmroth]

In article <suja9lled3cp21@corp.supernews.com>,
  "Jeff Creem" <jcreem@atetola.mv.com> wrote:
>
> "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote in message
> news:KKeG5.7236$2d3.1789665@newsrump.sjc.telocity.net...
> > he window appears because you didn't tell the linker that your
program
> > is a Windows program. To do so, requires passing the option -
mwindows
> > to the linker.
> >
> > One good way to do this is to put in your main program source code
the
> > following pragma:
> >
> > pragma Linker_Options("-mwindows");
> >
>
> This advice is correct but I prefer to put things like this in a build
> script/makefile since when this
> program is moved to Linux or some other non Win32 environment the -
mwindows
> will need to be removed.
>

Well, I guess one could use the gnatprep tool if compiling with GNAT.
This way you can just include pragmas for the platform in question...

Just my $0.25
Andreas


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