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From: Eilie <Eilie@what-are-you-looking.for>
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Subject: Re: Ncurses and Ada
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:59:46 +0000 (UTC)
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Date: 2012-03-09T16:59:46+00:00
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On 2012-03-09, mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, March 9, 2012 3:40:00 PM UTC+1, Eilie wrote:
>> Hello,
>>  I started learn ada recently and mess with ncurses.
>>  I know this is somewhat unrelated but maybe someone can help me here.
>>  I build ncurses with Ada support,
>>  Ada examples(rain and so on) has been built fine.
>>  But i don't know how should i build mine programs that uses ncurses.
>>  For example: I copy rain.adb from examples dir to some other dir,
>>  How can i build it? What options of gnatmake should i pick to build it?
>
> Is ncurses related with curses? (I guess so) Ah, memories... I used curses _many_ years ago, when I was a student and I thought that the name was quite appropriate...
>:-/  Especially when the usual segmentation fault left your VT100 monitor [yes, I am that old!] in an unusable state, forcing you to logout and login  again...
>
> Seriously, since I never used ncurses, I cannot be of much help, but I can give you some general advice.  Does the example dir has some project file (*.gpr)?  If it has, I would start from that, taking an existing project file and modifying to my needs.
>
> Hope this "bootstraps" you.
>
> Riccardo

I'm tryng to make some simple CLI game.
I think that study GtkAda for this purpose would be overhead.
But if there is some more stable/usable lib for that purpose(CLI tools/games)
i will be happy to hear about it.