Re: The best possible way to call a function in a shared library

[John Smith <yoursurrogategod@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, October 5, 2017 at 7:55:57 PM UTC-4, John Smith wrote:
> Screw it.  I just made a secondary project file to wrap around the static library that I don't have the source code for... It "feels" like a dirty little solution, it works.

Ok, another problem.  I have this project file that is responsible to act as an in-between the *.a file for when I don't necessarily have the source code:

project Static_Project is
  for Externally_Built use "true";
  for Source_Files use ();
  for Library_Dir use "bin/debug";
  for Library_Name use "simpleLibs";
  for Library_Kind use "static";
end Static_Project;


The project file that's supposed to use them is this:

with "..\..\..\static_project";

project Main_Static is
  for Source_Dirs use (".");
  for Object_Dir use ".";
  for Main use ("main_static.adb");

  package Builder is
  end Builder;

  package Compiler is
    for Switches("Ada") use ("-g", "-gnatwa");
  end Compiler;

  package Binder is
  end Binder;

  package Linker is
  end Linker;
end Main_Static;


So, I compile stuff and I get an error message saying that there are missing *.ads files... but aren't I supposed to not have them in the first place?