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Subject: Re: SDL Ada package fails to compile on Mac, gnat 13.1, missing "SDL2_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"
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Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> writes:

> Since I'm [...] using gnatmake

I don't understand why you'd want to use gnatmake? Most people who
provide packaged libraries (e.g. sdlada) include a GPR file which saves
you a raft of pain if you use it. OK, you have to learn something about
gprbuild, but then you have to learn how to drive gnatmake (e.g. the
previous discussion about -I). Also, sdlada includes 3 C source files,
and so far as I know gnatmake doesn't know how to build C files, whereas
gprbuild does and build/gnat/sdlada.gpr drives the needed compilations.

>                 I'm on a Mac mini
> with an M1 chip, ALR refuses to get most packages because I don't have
> a native Ada compiler

Can you give us an example of a package that alr refuses to get?