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Subject: Re: The best possible way to call a function in a shared library
From: John Smith <yoursurrogategod@gmail.com>
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Date: 2017-10-04T16:24:05-07:00
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On Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 11:03:32 AM UTC-4, Simon Wright wrote:
> John Smith <you.......gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > + gnatmake -l../../../src .\main_static.adb -largs -L../../../bin/debug ...
> 
> That should be -I (capital letter i) not -1 (digit one).

Worse yet, I had a lower-case letter "L".  I corrected it based on your suggestion and included -v as Dmitry suggested and this is what I'm seeing:

> gnatmake -v -I../../../src main_static.adb -largs -L../../../bin/debug -lsimpleLibs -A..\..\..\ali\debug
gnatmake : gnatmake: missing source directory name
At line:1 char:1
+ gnatmake -v -I../../../src main_static.adb -largs -L../../../bin/debu ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (gnatmake: missing source directory name:String) [], RemoteException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError


Basically, this is my directory structure:

+---ali
|   +---debug
|   \---release
+---bin
|   +---debug
|   \---release
+---main
|   +---static
|       +---executable
|       \---project
+---obj
|   +---debug
|   \---release
\---src

bin has the library files *.a and *.dll