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Subject: Re: GPS issues: laundry list
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:08:45 +0100
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Marius Amado-Alves <amado.alves@gmail.com> writes:

> I am using GPS only because my project depends on Adacore libraries
> (AWS, Aunit) that make it necessary to use Adacore to build it. (In a
> misterious way to me. Gnatmake was such a beautiful tool, everything
> was clear at last, then suddenly we're back to the black arts age,
> like with makefiles and autoconf.)
>
> So I am "forced" to use GPS. (I'd rather use Notepad++. I hate visual
> "studios". Waste of screen space. Visual spagetti. GPS is faulty
> anyway. Oh, well...)
>
> So I'm learning the "GPS way". Trying to understand the "Project
> properties" thing. Find it extremely awkward, confusing. A simple
> thing like putting a source file in a project is ludricously hard.

It sounds to me as though your problems are with GNAT Project rather
than with GPS. GPRbuild[1] is a more-capable cousin of gnatmake, but the
info in [1] mainly applies.

Mostly, you just need to make sure your source _directories_ are in the
project.

> But I keep going. Some things are very useful viz. the navigation from
> a reference to its declaration (if the declaration is in the
> project...)

Emacs ada-mode does this ...

[1] http://docs.adacore.com/gprbuild-docs/html/gprbuild_ug.html