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On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 08:21:01 +0100, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
wrote:

>
>> Hi.  I have written a small ada  pgm under ubuntu.  This program is
>> working.  But it only works on computers that I have already installed
>> gnat.  I am assuming that this is due to dynamic linking to a runtime
>> library for ada.
>>
>> Is there a way to statically link an ada program so I do not have this
>> issue?
>
>   $ gnatbind --help
>   ...
>     -static   Link against a static GNAT run time
>     -shared   Link against a shared GNAT run time
>   ...
>
>   $ gnatmake foo.adb -bargs -static
>
>(I guess -shared is default on your system; on Mac OS X it appears the
>default is -static).

Thanks.  That worked.