Re: How to run a GNAT program without starting a terminal session

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 7:20:50 PM UTC-6, Jerry wrote:
> How can I get Ada (GNAT) to run a program that has no text I/O without launching a terminal session? Specifically, on macOS, I have the following program. When I double-click it, it runs but first it opens Terminal.app and starts a session. I played with calling it from Applescript but without success. Can I make a bash file that doesn't start a terminal session?
> 
> 
> with Ada.Calendar; use Ada.Calendar;
> with Common; -- Contains "Beep".
> 
> procedure Run is
> begin
>     Delay 4.0;
>     Common.Beep(1);
> end Run;
> 
> 
> Jerry

Since you're talking about GNAT in particular you can use GNAT's System.OS_Lib package as detailed in the last example here: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Execute_a_system_command#Ada