Re: ANN: VisualAda (Ada Integration for Visual Studio 2017)

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On Friday, June 29, 2018 at 5:37:07 PM UTC+10, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2018-06-29 04:56, Jere wrote:
> 
> > Thank you so much for making this.
> 
> I concur.
> 
> > At some point I need to set this up and see how it works with MSYS2.
> 
> Normally there is no problem linking GCC things with VS. I had minor 
> problems with generating import libraries from GCC. I found no better 
> way than manually creating a def-file and it was quite boring. I hope 
> that VisualAda automates that.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



On Friday, June 29, 2018 at 5:37:07 PM UTC+10, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2018-06-29 04:56, Jere wrote:
> 
> > Thank you so much for making this.
> 
> I concur.
> 
> > At some point I need to set this up and see how it works with MSYS2.
> 
> Normally there is no problem linking GCC things with VS. I had minor 
> problems with generating import libraries from GCC. I found no better 
> way than manually creating a def-file and it was quite boring. I hope 
> that VisualAda automates that.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Hi Dmitry

Thanks for your support, and I'll look into your idea of what I see as
a "Binding generator" for native win32 libraries. A possible approach
may be to "re-surface" so to speak, the legacy win32 Api currently used
(which is extremely outdated) to a more "user friendly" and up to date Api

Alex