From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,XPRIO autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b2e3c95be583034a,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.hub.org!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Paul" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada on Linux X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:28:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.176.48.209 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1188304109 124.176.48.209 (Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:28:29 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:28:29 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1572 Date: 2007-08-28T12:28:29+00:00 List-Id: Hi, I'm returning to programming (for pleasure, rather than profit) after a few years working mostly as a manager. I was writing Ada code back in the '80s. Although I've used GNAT occasionally on a windows platform I gather it works better on Linux. However I'm not a Linux expert (far from it!) and I'm getting tied up in knots trying to get a development platform working. I recently bought a licence for VMWare Workstation 6 on Win XP and I'm trying to get a Glade/GNAT/GTKAda arrangement working in either Fedora or Ubuntu (both installed as host O/S'). Neither installation seems to be able to generate Ada code from Glade without errors. In Ubuntu I've successively downloaded various versions of GTKAda, GTK+, GLIBC and other 'dependent' packages and all I do is create more errors. I do seem to have GNAT installed properly as I can compile and link a simple 'Hello world' test program. So my question is - does anyone have a simple cookbook/howto to set up a GNAT/Glade compilation system on Linux? Ada code I can write - understanding Linux is driving me nuts. Is there a 'standard' directory structure for location of library/include files in Linux? I'd be grateful for some assistance. None of the Linux manuals I've read so far have been of much help. Ping me off list if you prefer. Cheers Paul