From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fc2b5af8782d4ca3,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.66.161.105 with SMTP id xr9mr2058986pab.3.1361119142737; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:39:02 -0800 (PST) Path: ov8ni5045pbb.1!nntp.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!newsfeed1.swip.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: can one make a static build Ada+GUI GTK application? Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:39:01 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: BPTqF8V0AWgpE9wQVor8Qw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Received-Bytes: 1428 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2013-02-17T10:39:01-06:00 List-Id: ref: http://libre.adacore.com/tools/gtkada/ Just a basic question: Is it possible to build a standalone .exe that is linked completely statically which includes all libraries needed to make an Ada with GUI front end using, I assume GTK since that is the most complete GUI API for Ada. i.e. If I do such an app, and send it to someone, I'd like them to be able to run it on their PC without having to install anything on their end. (I understand the .exe will be large in this case, but that is ok). Nothing commercial, just academic. I'd like to build it for windows and Linux also. If this is possible, any good links on the steps to that? thanks --Nasser