Re: Multiple shared libraries with a single spec

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

"Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Am 05.11.2005, 13:44 Uhr, schrieb Lucretia <lucretia9@lycos.co.uk>:
>
>>> > Hmmm, haven't used project files yet.
>>>
>>> They are very nice. For example, they make it easy to specify compiler
>>> options on a per-file basis (which I use to work around compiler bugs
>>> :).
>> I'll look into it. Can they be used for mixed language programming? I'm
>> using makefiles for wxAda a the moment.
>
> Depends on the language you want to mix ;-). C and C++ work fine -
> there  is a tool which will generate the needed makefiles for you.
> gpr2make - I  am not at home so I can guess the name only

GNAT GPL 2005 provides 'gprmake', which you run instead of gnatmake.
You can then add C (not C++, I think) files (that is, directories
containing *.c files) to your GNAT project files, and gprmake compiles
the C code into a library, then calls gnatmake to build the Ada main,
automatically linking in the C library. Very convenient.

However, 'gprmake' does not appear in the "super secret" GNAT
documentation, so I guess it qualifies as "top secret" :). GPS may use
it transparently; I don't use GPS.

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