Re: win64ada or win_32_64_ada ?

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 11:03:55 AM UTC-5, Lucretia wrote:
> This isn't what he's asking, that link only shows how to build a compiler.
> 
> He's asking if there Ada language bindings to the Win64 API, which I don't think there are.
> 
> I haven't used Windows for dev for over 10 years so I don't know the current status, I know they have this
> XAML stuff, for which there is https://github.com/Alex-Gamper/Ada-WinRT

… I know they have this ••WinRT/UWP•• stuff, for which there is https://github.com/Alex-Gamper/Ada-WinRT

(There, fixed that for you.)

Ada-WinRT doesn't support XAML yet.

XAML is an optional add-on to WinRT/UWP, intended mainly for interfacing with nontechnical UI/UX designers who lay out the UI as mock-ups without code behind the XAML yet.  Then the UI's XAML is delivered to C# (or F# or C++/CX or VisualBasic) programmers to write code behind that declarative-XML mock-up.

WinRT/UWP is the COM- & ATL-based OO replacement for Win32.  Win32 & Win64 are deprecated, not able to access all the new feature-sets of the Windows operating systems since, say, Windows XP.  Win64 is Win32 verbatim with pointers and integers widened to 64-bit.