Gnat 3.41 and Adabindx?

Gnat 3.41 and Adabindx?

[Freejack]

I'm using the Gentoo Gnat 3.41 package and was wondering if anyone has
patched Adabindx to work with it. If not, I'll grok the sources and try to
put together a decent patch.

I know there are bindings to Gtk and such. I'll use those later. Right now
I'm interested in OpenMotif and straight X/Xlib/Xt hacking.

On a side note, has anyone done any straight framebuffer hacking using
Ada? I've been using C, but I wanna try it with Ada. Using the Linux FB
drivers right now. Should be an interesting experiment with Ada's
representation clauses as far as pixel pushing, shading, and such.
Shouldn't be too difficult to get started as the Vesa/VBE standards are
pretty well documented.

Ideas?

Freejack

Re: Gnat 3.41 and Adabindx?

[Luke A. Guest]

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 09:44:09 +0000, Freejack wrote:

> I'm using the Gentoo Gnat 3.41 package and was wondering if anyone has
> patched Adabindx to work with it. If not, I'll grok the sources and try to
> put together a decent patch.

Haven't tried it...yet.

> I know there are bindings to Gtk and such. I'll use those later. Right now
> I'm interested in OpenMotif and straight X/Xlib/Xt hacking.
> 
> On a side note, has anyone done any straight framebuffer hacking using
> Ada? I've been using C, but I wanna try it with Ada. Using the Linux FB
> drivers right now. Should be an interesting experiment with Ada's
> representation clauses as far as pixel pushing, shading, and such.
> Shouldn't be too difficult to get started as the Vesa/VBE standards are
> pretty well documented.

Try creating your own bindings for it, it's not that difficult to do.

Luke.

Re: Gnat 3.41 and Adabindx?

[Luke A. Guest]

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:02:31 +0000, Luke A. Guest wrote:

> On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 09:44:09 +0000, Freejack wrote:
> 
>> I'm using the Gentoo Gnat 3.41 package and was wondering if anyone has
>> patched Adabindx to work with it. If not, I'll grok the sources and try to
>> put together a decent patch.
> 
> Haven't tried it...yet.

It's completely broken as it uses internal GNAT packages which aren't
portable. Strangely enough though, the compiler chokes on a package saying
it can't find it, and later on (if you get rid of the error), it chokes
again, saying it's an internal/non-portable package.

Anyway, I'm going to use my C routines and import them into my Ada
project.

Luke.

Re: Gnat 3.41 and Adabindx?

[Guillaume Foliard]

Freejack wrote:

> I'm using the Gentoo Gnat 3.41 package and was wondering if anyone has
> patched Adabindx to work with it. If not, I'll grok the sources and try to
> put together a decent patch.

I have a small patch for recent GNAT versions. I've added a binding to
MIT-SHM as well. I can mail it to you.

Guillaume

Re: Gnat 3.41 and Adabindx?

[Luke A. Guest]

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:43:35 +0100, Guillaume Foliard wrote:

> Freejack wrote:
> 
>> I'm using the Gentoo Gnat 3.41 package and was wondering if anyone has
>> patched Adabindx to work with it. If not, I'll grok the sources and try to
>> put together a decent patch.
> 
> I have a small patch for recent GNAT versions. I've added a binding to
> MIT-SHM as well. I can mail it to you.
> 
> Guillaume

Mail it to me if you want and I'll try it out.

Does it contain bindings for the <X11/extensions/xf86vmode.h> extension?

Thanks,
Luke.

Re: Gnat 3.41 and Adabindx?

[Bobby D. Bryant]

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004, Freejack <freejack@nowhere.net> wrote:

> I'm using the Gentoo Gnat 3.41 package and was wondering if anyone has
> patched Adabindx to work with it. If not, I'll grok the sources and try to
> put together a decent patch.

Assuming you're having the same problem I had, you can get the fix from
the "Additional Comment #1" attachment at
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74268

I named it adabindx-0.7.2-r1, but it has not been added to Gentoo yet.
Whether you use it, or just add the described line to the 0.7.2 ebuild,
you'll have to tweak the Manifest to get emerge to accept it.  Moreover,
I have found that rsynch trashes the patch, so I keep copies that I can
throw back into /usr/portage after an rsync.


Also, if you use "-pipe" in your CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf you'll need to
look at the last comment on http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61900

There are several other packages in dev-ada that won't compile for me as-is,
but debugging them hasn't boiled up to the top of my priority list yet.

Good luck!

-- 
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas