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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,c98f618755b0ddcc X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.201.147.78.MISMATCH!feeder.news-service.com!188.40.43.213.MISMATCH!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Charmed Snark Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Thinking of using Ada for a job at home. Couple of questions first. Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:46:08 +0000 (UTC) Organization: The Snarky Insanitorium Message-ID: References: <6ggto5p3g2p58839gdsut6idb2l621nv2c@4ax.com> <49fb3586-981d-46a8-a023-f43c8fa47c36@t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com> Injection-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:46:08 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: feeder.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9f8M0iN5t54V+4DF/iqO8g"; logging-data="10190"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/zwGXiK0IROAYWSBt46vB0Zb1rzLPGcDI=" User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 X-Face: &6@]C2>ZS=NM|HE-^zWuryN#Z/2_.s9E|G&~DRi|sav9{E}XQJb*\_>=a5"q]\%A;5}LKP][1mA{gZ,Q!j Cancel-Lock: sha1:SSBBOGEVKAJBxaY4XJH/u3tT848= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9510 Date: 2010-03-10T17:46:08+00:00 List-Id: jonathan expounded in news:49fb3586-981d-46a8-a023-f43c8fa47c36 @t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com: > On Mar 9, 9:57�pm, Charmed Snark wrote: >> jonathan expounded in news:dc294dc4-c89d-4cc0-9826-ac2848277771 >> @o3g2000yqb.googlegroups.com: >> > On Mar 9, 2:49�pm, Warren Gay 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