Re: GNAT and no runtime

[JCS <SANS.SPAM@MERCI.FR>]

On Wed, 26 May 2004 03:52:40 -0700, Wojtek Narczynski wrote:
> http://polaris.dit.upm.es/~str/proyectos/ork/
Thanks.

>> The "kernel" can boot (with the help of GRUB), I can print a "Hello
>> world" text, and retrieve some informations from the bootloader.
> 
> Congrats! Did you use / tweak the b~main.ad[sb] (binder) code?
I use the binder code, yes.
But why would I need to tweak it? (Futhermore it would be annoying since
it is regenerated at each compile!)

>> Before going further, I would like to take advantage of Ada, so at
>> least use exceptions.
> 
> I think you can "gnatmake" your program with -a (Consider all files) to
> find out which files from the runtime are necessary for it to run. For
> your Main procedure it gives:
> 
> s-stalib.adb, a-except.adb, system.ads, s-exctab.adb, s-memory.adb,
> s-soflin.adb, ada.ads, a-elchha.adb, interfac.ads, s-mastop.adb,
> s-secsta.adb, s-stoele.adb, s-traceb.adb, s-unstyp.ads, s-traent.adb,
> s-htable.adb, s-crtl.ads, s-parame.adb, s-stache.adb, s-maccod.ads,
> s-except.ads
> 
> It is very likely that you'll have to tweak some of those files.
Yes, what a work for just a "hello world" message! :-)

> By the way, do you know how to expand those filenames to full names, or
> at least create symlinks with full length names? It would be so much
> easier...
No, I would also be interested by the answer since the big file set of
GNAT is somewhat confusing.

Thanks,
JC