From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Using 'Image with Alire
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2023 22:58:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lyr0of25qj.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3bdf9138-c60d-48a4-b720-21c25e96f16cn@googlegroups.com
Seth Workman <saworkman1@gmail.com> writes:
> I have only started learning about Ada recently and have discovered
> the 'Image attribute that can be used on all types starting in ada
> 2022.
>
> I am using Alire and added the following to include the `-gnat2022` switch.
> ```
> for Default_Switches ("Ada") use Learning_Config.Ada_Compiler_Switches & ("-gnat2022");
> ```
>
> The Alire documentation warns about switches ~"In general, this should
> be avoided to preserve consistency in the ecosystem"
Not 100% sure what this means!
> Is this the correct way about adding this switch or is there a way to
> use a toolchain that already has it by default?
This works fine, but in your alire.toml you could say
[build-switches]
"*".ada_version = "ada2022"
or
[build-switches]
"*".ada_version = ["-gnat2022"]
See "Release Information" (near the end) and "Build Profiles and
Switches" in the documentation.
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2023-08-06 21:17 Using 'Image with Alire Seth Workman
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