Re: ANN: VisualAda (Ada Integration for Visual Studio 2017 & 2019) release 1.1.12

[Greg <arkman3112@gmail.com>]

Alex,

1. I think I had canceled a build earlier, which is why we didn't see those two "missing" adb files. 
2. Forgotten that SYSTEM paths come before USER paths in Windows, so added some entries to SYSTEM path for MSYS and rebooted.
3. Created a new XAML app in VS 2019 called "RaceDirector" (which is what "RD" stood for, just got lazy.)
4. In VS project properties, "C:\MSYS64\..." picked up correctly for the 3 "Gnat Root" directories.
5. Consequently, I proceeded to build the solution WITHOUT a change to the project properties.
5. Built "RaceDirectorXaml" fine.
6. Building "RaceDirector" yields this:

1>------ Build started: Project: RaceDirector, Configuration: Debug x64 ------
1>Compile
1>   [Ada]          racedirector.adb
1>   [Ada]          appoverrides.adb
1>   [Ada]          winmainstartup.adb
1>   [Ada]          guitask.adb
1>   [Ada]          locatortask.adb
1>   [Ada]          racedirectorxaml.adb
1>Bind
1>   [gprbind]      racedirector.bexch
1>   [Ada]          racedirector.ali
1>MSBUILD : error MSB4166: Child node "2" exited prematurely. Shutting down. Diagnostic information may be found in files in "C:\Users\Dad\AppData\Local\Temp\" and will be named MSBuild_*.failure.txt. This location can be changed by setting the MSBUILDDEBUGPATH environment variable to a different directory.
1>A task was canceled.
1>A task was canceled.
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Notice I did NOT get the ...
1>gprbind: invocation of gnatbind failed 
1>gprbuild: unable to bind rd.adb 
... but still a build error. And still cannot find a MSBuild_*.failure.txt in the indicated directory.

NEXT ...

Launched a x64 Native VS2019 command prompt:

gprbuild -f -v -p -P RaceDirector.gpr
==============Error messages for file: C:\home\dad\dev2\RaceDirector\RaceDirector\RaceDirector\RaceDirector.gpr
     4. with "WinRt.gpr";
        >>> unknown project file: "WinRt.gpr"
gprbuild: "RaceDirector.gpr" processing failed

So this has GOT to be a directory/path I'm not setting somewhere.

Onward, SO close :)
Greg