Re: Ada, Qt & Swig

["Frode Tennebø" <frodet@nvg.org>]

Preben Randhol wrote:
> On 17 Oct 2000 13:52:59 GMT, Frode Tenneboe wrote:
> >There is already a Ada bindign to GTK, however with the GPL of Qt
> >and Qt/Embedded, I was thinking that Qt might be a right option
> >for some. Has anyone looked into this?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean, but GTK is also GPL. Though it would
> probably be nice with a QT binding as well.

Qt is a commercial product - more 'sellable' to the Ties. Also, there
does not exist a GTK/Embedded. :)

> >Since there already exists a Qt binding for Perl, it should not
> >be too difficult to implement one for Ada?
> 
> You'll have to wrap C++ functions though.

Perl does that already, though I'm not sure about the mechanism behind
that, but it should be doable. And GNAT has separate pragmas for C++.
I tried a rather complicated test with a commercial product, but hit
the wall when the precompilled binary was compilled with the SUN
compiler and I was not able to look further into the Vtables stuff to
see if that was the issue. I suspect that this goes away if both the
C++ and Ada code generator is gcc.

 -Frode

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