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Subject: Re: Thinking of using Ada for a job at home. Couple of questions
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On Mar 9, 2:49=A0pm, Warren Gay <ve3...@gmail.com> 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".
>
> But I miss designing in Ada, to be sure.
>
> So I keep coming back to the same problem:
>
> =A0 * How can this be solved?
>
> One approach would be open sourced "binding" projects for
> the platforms of choice. I started APQ for example, to
> scratch just one itch. But binding projects are tedious.
>
> 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
and it wrote the thing for me.  Lot's of tedious complications
due to C strings and the like were taken care of.  A few things it
did wrong, but not too bad .. even I could fix it.

Jonathan