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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ada  "library only" compiler ?
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:10:44 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:

> Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:01:18 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:
>>
>>> Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>>> Calling Ada from Lua ought to work, but I haven't tried it yet.
>>> 
>>> The port at https://github.com/io7m/coreland-lua-ada seems not to have
>>> been looked at for a while.
>>
>> Nevertheless, it looks like a much better starting point than my
>> experiments.
> 
> It does seem very complicated, though!

The Ada part looks fine to me, on a quick inspection. But at least 75% of 
it seems to be shell scripts and configuration files for building and 
installation. I wonder how much of that complexity is really necessary?

If I wanted Lua-Ada bindings I think I would start there, extract the Ada 
files and use a much simpler (admittedly less general) build process. I 
suspect it would be much easier to adapt and maintain.

- Brian