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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: is getting OpenGL to work with Ada a lost cause?
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:49:48 -0500
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Date: 2014-08-18T16:49:48-05:00
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On 8/18/2014 4:01 PM, Shark8 wrote:

>
> Makefiles are terrible in-general -- but (/especially/) the ones which
> are distributed w/ AdaCore's libs: they  *really* tend to assume a *nix
> environment.
>
> Making me use a *nix environment layer like msys (or cygwin) to compile
> Ada, which is **supposed to be very cross-platform** is actually pretty
> stupid.
>

What I do is this: I use windows, since it is much better as a
desktop OS, but have Linux installed on a Vbox. I have 2 monitors, one
for windows and the second for Linux. Linux mounts my windows desk
as shared.

I use Linux for all my compiling/make/scripts/latex, etc.. all the things
that it is good for, and use windows for everything else GUI-wise.

The nice thing, is that, due to shared disk, then now Linux is just
like anything other app on windows. all use the same data.

So it is really trivial to try Ada or anything else on Linux, while
on windows. Simply install Vbox, install a Linux OS, and mount
your windows disk to Linux as shared, and you have the best of
both worlds.

ps. Makefiles are great. I do everything with makefiles. I use
recursive makefile to build a whole tree with one command. What
else would one use? a DOS batch file?

--Nasser