From: Doug.Warner@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug Warner)
Subject: Re: gnat and dlls
Date: 1996/05/21
Date: 1996-05-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vd3f4thjav.fsf@trinidad.cs.dartmouth.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4no2nu$60g@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Griest <griest-tom@cs.yale.edu> writes:
>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Anthony Spear <spear@wam.umd.edu> writes:
Eric> Is there any way I can write procedures in Ada, compile with
Eric> gnat, and end up with a dll, which could then be accessed by a
Eric> windows program, like visual basic?
Tom> There probably is, but AFAIK no one has done this so far. To
Tom> some degree, it depends on how general you want the solution
Tom> to be. There are some issues with respect to making the Ada
Tom> runtime a separate DLL, and how initialization is done.
I don't know anything about windows & dlls, but it was pretty easy to
create a `hello, world' shared library for OSF/1 on an alpha. It
looked like it wouldn't take too much work to automate the process,
but I don't know enough about gnat.
Just my $0.005,
Doug Warner
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-05-19 0:00 gnat and dlls Eric Anthony Spear
1996-05-19 0:00 ` Tom Griest
1996-05-20 0:00 ` Darren C Davenport
1996-05-20 0:00 ` Wiljan Derks
1996-05-22 0:00 ` gnat and dlls: ObjectAda Dave Wood
1996-05-20 0:00 ` gnat and dlls John Howard
1996-05-21 0:00 ` Doug Warner [this message]
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