Re: GTKADA Installation Questions

["Paul" <pcas1986@bigpond.net.au>]

Srini - wrote:

> On Oct 8, 2:56�am, "Paul" <pcas1...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > � � � � I'm trying to work my way through the GTKADA tutorial
> > examples and have some questions about the preferred installation
> > of GNAT and GTKADA. �I'm using Windows XP (sorry :o)), GNAT GPL
> > 2009, GTKADA GPL 2.14.0 and GPS GPL 4.3.2. �All of these from the
> > Libre site.
> > 
> > There was an interesting discussion back in September regarding
> > runtime errors and the pango.aliases file which was useful. �I had
> > the same problem but while sorting that out I discovered that the
> > GNAT installation and GTKADA installations have similar, but
> > slightly different, directory structures. �This resulted in me
> > having two different copies of the pango.aliases file. �Naturally I
> > updated the wrong file and was rewarded by exactly the same error!
> > �Perhaps there is a PATH problem I need to fix. � I also noticed
> > that some of the duplicated files have different date/time stamps
> > which is disturbing.
> > 
> > So my question is should I be installing GTKADA "on top" of GNAT so
> > that the duplicated directories overlap? �The installation process
> > doesn't imply that this is a useful thing to do.
> > 
> > Rgds
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > --
> 
> My gnat dir is c:\gnat\2009
> gnatada is     c:\gnat\2009\GtkAda
> 
> except the pango.aliases issue, this has worked out reasonably for me.
> 
> I have a small setup.bat that looks like:
> 
> set GTKADA=C:\GNAT\2009\GTKADA
> set ADA_PROJECT_PATH=%ADA_PROJECT_PATH%;%GTKADA%\lib\gnat
> 
> I am sortof at peace. However, if you want to use gps (I use mostly
> emacs and the command line) then your best best is to have gtkada
> installed in the gnat directory.
> 
> Hope this helps. I would like other feedback as well.
> 
> thanks, srini


Thanks srini.  Re-installing GTKADA over GNAT seemed to make things
worse as I'm now having problems with linking to the static library.
This was ok before.  So I'm going to clean the installation and start
again.  See also my response to Rick.

Rgds
Paul

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