Re: Newbie problem with GtkAda

["Jeff Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com>]

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 :)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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 :(
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> Any insight would be much appreciated
>
> Yours,
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> Dominic
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