Re: SDL Ada package fails to compile on Mac, gnat 13.1, missing "SDL2_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"

["Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>]

On 28/06/2023 22:53, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:

>> I heavily use MacPorts. I keep hearing that it is a very bad idea to have MacPorts and HomeBrew concurrently installed on the same machine. Is it at all possible to do this without HomeBrew? Apparently I did not read your documentation carefully enough...I thought that having SDL installed via HomeBrew was optional, not required.

I didn't get it working on Mac myself, I originally started to get it 
going using the downloadable binaries you can just drag n drop.

Others got it working with brew, afaik.


> Since I'm not using ALIRE (ALR), but using gnatmake (I'm on a Mac mini with an M1 chip, ALR refuses to get most packages because I don't have a native Ada compiler), I thought that the HomeBrew mention was in regards to using the SDLAda package via ALIRE.
> 
> So that's a different problem requiring a different post :-)

You're probably better off using git to grab it, then modify the 
makefile and gpr's for a specific macos macports port, add a new 
Platform_Type, macosx_macports and add what you need inside the sdlada.gpr.

Then you can call make SDL_PLATFORM=macosx_macports SDL_MODE=release to 
build it.

Check whatever sdl2-config --cflags produces on that port.

If the headers are in different directories, you'll need to modify the 
version*.c files with extra #ifdef's for macports.