From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New to ada, what is gb? Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:19:10 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <6853df96-f239-4770-953a-cfdcb2d733fe@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: MajGvm9MbNtGBKE7r8NgYA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47724 Date: 2017-08-14T18:19:10+02:00 List-Id: On 2017-08-14 17:48, Josiah Smith wrote: > I'm new to ada and I can't figure out what gb is. it looks like bindings to some third party library. > As used here: > http://www.sigada.org/locals/dc/200204_Beard_Image_Viewer_Window.Ada > It obviously has something to do with the GUI, but whenever I build, > the compiler searches for a gb.ads file. Is gb build into the compiler > or do I need to download a library from somewhere? (I'm using GPS 2017) No, it is not standard Ada. BTW, all standard libraries are described in Ada Reference Manual: http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-TOC.html P.S. You could use a less outlandish GUI library with Ada. There are Gtk, Qt, Win32Ada bindings as well as frameworks on top of Windows API, GWindows, Claw and also a Web-based GUI framework gnoga. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de