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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: SDL Ada package fails to compile on Mac, gnat 13.1, missing
 "SDL2_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:29:07 +0100
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On 29/06/2023 17:06, Simon Wright wrote:
> "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com> writes:
> 
>> Yeah, unfortunately I cannot remove the C files as they turn C macros
>> into variables and are useful at runtime, see the sdlada repo for
>> someone who wants to get rid of them.
> 
> I had exactly this in tcladashell; even better, a Tcl script to generate
> a C source, compiled against the Tcl/Tk libraries and run to generate
> Ada source specifying record sizes/alignments.

I bet you never had someone try to remove the C file though.