Re: GprBuild and linker options

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Felix Krause <fordprefect86@googlemail.com> writes:

> I need GprBuild to use a custom linker option (in this case, for linking against an OSX framework). So I include this in my project file:
>
> package Linker is
>    for Linker_Options use ("-framework OpenCL", "-v");
> end Linker;
[...]
> /usr/local/gnat/bin/gcc [...] -framework /users/felix/projects/libs/openclada//OpenCL -v [...]
>
> This obviously results in an error because this framework can't be
> found. I searched in the GprBuild user's guide for some hint on what
> causes this behavior, but I didn't find anything. Can anyone tell me
> how to either make the GprBuild execution with "-framework OpenCL"
> work like when I execute it in the shell, or prevent GprBuild from
> prepending the working path to "OpenCL" when passing two strings to
> Linker_Options?

As a possible quick fix, could you try ths with gnatmake? (not of course
if it's a mixed-language project)

Although you'd have thought gprbuild & gnatmake would use the same logic
they are often out of step.