Sunday 24 July 2011

When you need gprbuild

Most of the time, if your code is entirely in Ada, it'll build just fine with gnatmake. You only need gprbuild for mixed-language programming.

However, there's one case in which you need gprbuild, even for Ada-only code; it's when you're building a shared library on Mac OS X (Darwin).

Saturday 9 July 2011

Building gprbuild-gpl-2011

The way to build Ada code with GNAT used to be to use gnatmake. This still works, but there's a new kid on the block: gprbuild.

Starting (for 10)

Until now I've relied on posting to comp.lang.ada, with the occasional foray onto the Ada group at identi.ca, and a notebook on TiddlyWiki.

I think now's the time to look into this newfangled blogging thing.