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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Question on setting up libraries
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:45:37 +0100
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randomm@mindless.com writes:

> What is the proper way to manage all this?  Presently I've got:
>
> libAdaCurses.a
> *.o
> *.ali files
> in a directory in my ADA_OBJECTS_PATH
>
> and
> *.adb
> *.ads
> in a directory in my ADA_INCLUDE_PATH

I don't personally bother with precompiling libraries, I just put the
source in the Ada source path (using GNAT Project, or -I if it's a
quick hack) but I can see that some people don't like that.

With that said, your scheme seems OK except I'd have expected _either_
the .o's _or_ the .a; looking at the installation here the Ada library
has

   $ ls /opt/gnat-gpl-2005/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.1/3.4.5/adalib/*.[ao]
   /opt/gnat-gpl-2005/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.1/3.4.5/adalib/g-trasym.o
   /opt/gnat-gpl-2005/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.1/3.4.5/adalib/libgccprefix.a
   /opt/gnat-gpl-2005/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.1/3.4.5/adalib/libgmem.a
   /opt/gnat-gpl-2005/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.1/3.4.5/adalib/libgnarl.a
   /opt/gnat-gpl-2005/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.1/3.4.5/adalib/libgnat.a

so there the choice isn't 100% for some deep reason; but the compiler
will have special magic to include the necessary linker directives for
itself.

I'd expect the equivalent in your case to be in a GNAT Project file
for AdaCurses (adacurses.gpr??); or perhaps in a pragam Linker_Options
somewhere.