Re: Thinking of using Ada for a job at home. Couple of questions first.

[Charmed Snark <snark@cogeco.ca>]

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jonathan expounded in news:49fb3586-981d-46a8-a023-f43c8fa47c36
@t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com:

> On Mar 9, 9:57�pm, Charmed Snark <sn...@cogeco.ca> wrote:
>> jonathan expounded in news:dc294dc4-c89d-4cc0-9826-ac2848277771
>> @o3g2000yqb.googlegroups.com:
>> > On Mar 9, 2:49�pm, Warren Gay <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> This is the one main issue that made me give up on Ada a few
>> >> years back. It seemed that every project that I wanted
>> >> to do, required me to create a "binding" for this and
>> >> another for that. Sing "It's a C/C++ world after all".
>> ..
>> >> Another approach might be to create a "binding translator".
>> >> Feed a C/C++ preprocessed output into the translator and
>> >> crank out some ugly but functional package(s).
>> > Some more detail on the AdaCore binding translator Jacob mentioned 
...
>> > Recently I decided I wanted a binding to C package, googled for
>> > a tutorial, and found gem 59 and gem 60
>>
>> >http://www.adacore.com/2009/02/23/gem-59/
>>
>> > Thanks AdaCore! �I couldn't have written a binding myself even
>> > in the easiest limit. All I did was type (iirc)
>> > � � � �g++ -c -fdump-ada-spec -C �file_name.h
>> > Jonathan
>>
>> Hey, that is good news! I'll definitely check it out.
>> Warren
> 
> I should add that I did not put it to a severe test.
> The binding it created was 22 files, about 1500 semicolons.
> I trimmed it to 1 file, 26 semicolons in length to get
> my program working.  It would have been more work
> to fix everything (though once you figure out what can
> go wrong its not as hard).
> 
> Jonathan

I do most of my work under cygwin (laptop) since that is
what I have with me on the road and at work. But the current
cygwin versions don't seem to support -fdump-ada-spec.

But hopefully someday, it'll be everywhere.

Warren