Re: How to deal with Ada libraries?

[Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On 2017-10-29 19:12, Victor Porton wrote:
> 
>> I am to choose of three variants:
>> 
>> 1. create a Makefile to build the Simple Components library and link to
>> this library;
> 
> Why not gprbuild?

I call gprbuild from my Makefiles.

>> 2. don't create a library but just include Dmitry's files as a part of my
>> source;
> 
> If you use project files, and you should, there is no difference unless
> you wanted a dynamically-linked library. Using sources is more
> comfortable with GPS as you could easily browse the implementations and
> fix them if necessary.
> 
>> 3. just install the Debian package built by Dmitry.
>> 
>> The "3" variant has the deficiency that because the Dmitry's package is
>> not in Debian, this may cause difficulty in the future to make my own
>> Debian package of my software.
> 
> Again no difference for a static library.
> 
> Note that there might be dependencies on third-party packages. E.g. if
> you wanted to use secure HTTP, you would depend on GNUTLS (for AWS it
> would be OpenSSL).
> 
> For the case of having dynamic libraries and your own Debian package,
> you would probably set up your own repository. Then you would just put
> there any packages you needed which are not in the standard repository.
> So I don't see a problem here.
> 
> P.S. Any choice is easily reversible if you use project files. I would
> strongly recommend to ditch makefile, automake et al, sooner, the better.

Yes, I do use automake and autoconf.

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