Re: Newbie problem with GtkAda

[Dom <fitdz@clara.co.uk>]

Thanks very much for the info, I grabbed the whole mailing list archive 
and found remarkably simple instructions for generating the code manually 
:) 

gate-in.exe file.glade > all.ada
gnatchop all.ada

Did the trick with all the examples, no doubt I will run into issues at 
some point but thats my problem for running a tatty old OS! Win2K or a 
Linux partition for the future.

Everything else GtkAda seems to work fine with Win 98 (so far...) 

> I suspect you are running win 98 or ME or something similar. The gate script
> does not really work for that OS family. It still works fine
> under NT, 2000. The Gtkada site is not always really clear that they
> are currently really only supporting the NT family.
> 
> Look around for a script I did to replace gate that works under 98. It is an
> ugly hack but it does work.
> 
> You should be able to find my post from a few months back at
> http://gtkada.eu.org/pipermail/gtkada/
> (I'd send it to you directly but I did it on my laptop while on travel and I
> do not have immediate access to it.)
> 
> (The basic problem you are running into appears to be caused by an error
> in the way the consumer version of windows handles command line arguments. I
> forget the exact problem I found but it is not really caused by a "bug" in
> the
> Gtkada stuff...Just a missing workaround for a win95/98 problem)
> 
> 
> "Dom" <fitdz@clara.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:MPG.158d5b5bbeba46d8989682@news.claranews.com...
> > Hope there are people around using GtkAda :)
> >
> > I can get Ada source files that include the Gtk libraries to compile fine
> > (using jGrasp and GNAT), so my compile paths seem to be fine. However, I
> > cannot get projects created with Glade to convert into source code using
> > gate.
> >
> > I am getting "Couldn't parse
> > C:/GtkAda/examples/C:\GtkAda<ASCII CHR>xamples\menu.glade" as an error
> > when trying to use the project file given as an example with GtkAda.
> >
> > I tried lots of different ways of setting the paths in the project
> > settings and managed to get rid of the ascii character but not the
> > problem. If I run gate.bat from the command line, I get:
> >
> > C:\Ada>gate gladetest.glade
> > C:\GTKADA\BIN\mkdir: cannot create directory `./': File exists
> > C:\GTKADA\BIN\mkdir: cannot make directory `.gate/gladetest
> > src
> > pixmaps/tmp': No such file or directory
> > C:/GtkAda/bin/gate.sh: permission denied:
> > .gate/gladetest\nsrc\npixmaps/tmp/gate
> > .ada [59]
> >
> > Maybe I should be able to tell from this what is wrong, but I am having
> > trouble :(
> >
> > Any insight would be much appreciated