Re: GTK Build from source

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

"RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com" <RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com> writes:

> FWIW
>
> A pertinent question might be - will the gnat Project support with gpr
> files not serve the function. Perhaps ada based distributions should
> use that instead of the traditional config etc.
>
> In any case, I found that on Windows for gnat based development, I am
> not sure cygwin works that well. for example, the -I and other such
> specifications want to interpret the argument using the native
> directory separator ie "\" and not the unix like "/"

Any recent GNAT will handle "/" in windows file/path names; what
version are you running that has problems with that?

Perhaps you mean the native path separator in ADA_PROJECT_PATH; that
is still a problem, but since you specify ADA_PROJECT_PATH once per
project, it's not a big deal.

Also, installing Cygwin at c:/ (_not_ c:/cygwin) makes things _much_
nicer; then windows c:/foo/bar is the _same_ as cygwin /foo/bar; no
/cygdrive/c/ or `cygpath -w /foo/bar' necessary. The Cygwin installer
complains when you do this; that's because it assumes you don't know
what you are doing, and might have some other bin directory at c:/bin.
Ignore the complaint!

> So if one is used to the command line - we have to get friendly with
> cmd!!!

Not me!

Except when trying to use an nfs client from Windows; Cygwin doesn't
have one, so I have to use another product, and then Cygwin doesn't
see those mounts. Obvious solution; pay someone to build a Cygwin nfs
client!

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