Re: is getting OpenGL to work with Ada a lost cause?

[Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>]

19.8.2014 0:49, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> 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.
>> 
> 
> ps. What else would one use? a DOS batch file?

This "build the sources thing" is quite a headache in my
unit testing framework (Ahven, Ada 95 code), which tries
to be buildable with every Ada compiler.

For GNAT, I have quite complex Makefile which works only with
GNU Make on Linux (and *BSD) systems. In theory, it probably
works on Windows also if msys/cygwin is used.

For Janus/Ada on Windows, I use DOS batch files, since I could
not figure out anything better and using Janus/Ada build tools
directly require me to remember way too many arguments.

On the other hand, Irvine ICCAda provides such a nice build
tools, that I haven't had need to write Makefiles or DOS batch
files for it yet.

Full installation instructions are available at
http://www.ahven-framework.com/api-2.4/manual.html#building-and-installing-ahven
in case someone is interested.

Yours,
 Tero