Re: What would you like in Ada202X?

[johnscpg@googlemail.com]

On Wednesday, July 4, 2012 11:26:53 PM UTC+1, Simon Wright wrote:
> shai.lesh writes:
> 
> > On Wednesday, July 4, 2012 8:22:46 PM UTC+1, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> >
> >> 	A search of my machine (WinXP, ancient) with the 2011 build from
> >> AdaCore/libre, seeking *blas*.*
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 	Nothing in E:\GNAT\... and only an old malware checker from M$ in
> >> system directories.
> >> -- 
> >
> > Nothing in mine too. I have both GNAT GPL 2011 and 2012 on
> > Windows. Hope that next Ada versions will make the library more
> > "accessible" and easier to use.
> 
> Looks as though for GNAT GPL 2011 on Windows, BLAS and LAPACK are in
> C:\GNAT\2011\lib\gcc\i686-pc-mingw32\4.5.3\libgnalasup.a.
> 
> Not as obvious as one might have expected.

On linux, the GNAT GPL 2011 lapack stuff seems to be in 
.../lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/adalib/libgnala.a

Package interfaces.fortran.blas was in the files i-forbla.ads and 
i-forbla.adb, and lapack interfaces in i-forlap.ads.

In the GNAT GPL 2012 distribution I can't find any of these things. I
was able to get your Ada_Numerics.Generic_Arrays package working OK on
GPL 2012, but I had to copy i-forbla.ads and i-forbla.adb from the old
GPL 2011 src, and I had to link to my own lapack and blas libraries. At least
System.Generic_Array_Operations is still in 2012, so Ada_Numerics.Generic_Arrays worked well. 

J.