Re: Trying to follow the GNAT GPS tutorial I have fallen at the first hurdle. :(

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

approximatecyberneticmechanism@gmail.com writes:

> On Saturday, 23 February 2019 11:50:57 UTC, Simon Wright  wrote:
>> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>> 
>> > I think the tutorial is referring to a previous version of GPS? (not
>> > 2017, though)
>> 
>> It's the 2016 version. Will report.
>
> OK thanks but in the meantime where do I go for a tutorial on the 2018
> edition?

Sorry, but I don't know.

While following through on the tutorial accessed via the GPS help (I use
Emacs mainly, thought I ought to at least look at GPS for once!) I
noticed that

* code completion wasn't immediately triggered by typing 'scr'; had to
  start it off by menu Code, Smart Completion

* to get a dialog to run the program, I had to go to Prefs, Build
  Targets, Run, Run Main and change 'Launch mode' to 'Manually with
  dialog'

* the build generates the executable in the object directory, which is
  one below the project directory, so the input file spec is actually
  '../input.txt'

* Mojave, you said? there are issues with the debugger, see
  https://forward-in-code.blogspot.com/2018/11/mojave-vs-gdb.html (and
  even that has problems; for me, more often than not the debugger hangs
  after 'start' or 'run')