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Victor Porton
Jul 12, 2017, 2:50:50 PM7/12/17
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From another thread:
> You should probably be using gprbuild, not gnatmake.
What is the difference? Is gprbuild a newer version of gnatmake? What are
their differences?
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Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org
> You should probably be using gprbuild, not gnatmake.
What is the difference? Is gprbuild a newer version of gnatmake? What are
their differences?
--
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org
Simon Wright
Jul 13, 2017, 2:03:52 AM7/13/17
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Victor Porton <por...@narod.ru> writes:
> From another thread:
>
>> You should probably be using gprbuild, not gnatmake.
>
> What is the difference? Is gprbuild a newer version of gnatmake? What are
> their differences?
gnatmake is part of the compiler suite (it's used in the compiler
> From another thread:
>
>> You should probably be using gprbuild, not gnatmake.
>
> What is the difference? Is gprbuild a newer version of gnatmake? What are
> their differences?
build). gprbuild is not part of the compiler; it used only to be
generally available in source form as part of GNAT GPL releases, but
nowadays it's on github[1].
From there, "GPRbuild is an advanced build system designed to help
automate the construction of multi-language systems."; it understands
multiple languages (C, C++, Fortran at least - I haven't tried Fortran).
GCC 6 said
warning: gnatmake -P is obsolete and will not be available in the
next release; use gprbuild instead
but in fact GCC 8.0.0's gnatmake will accept project files (to some
extent, anyway, on a simple test).
[1] https://github.com/AdaCore/gprbuild
Stephen Leake
Jul 13, 2017, 4:39:42 AM7/13/17
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On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 1:03:52 AM UTC-5, Simon Wright wrote:
One feature of gprbuild is that it is multi-language; by default it knows how to build C, C++, and Ada programs, and you can teach it about compilers for other languages.
> Victor Porton writes:
>
> > From another thread:
> >
> >> You should probably be using gprbuild, not gnatmake.
> >
> > What is the difference? Is gprbuild a newer version of gnatmake? What are
> > their differences?
>
> gnatmake is part of the compiler suite (it's used in the compiler
> build). gprbuild is not part of the compiler; it used only to be
> generally available in source form as part of GNAT GPL releases, but
> nowadays it's on github[1].
This is misleading. gprbuild is in the GNAT GPL and supported releases; since 2014 it's bundled with the compiler.
>
> > From another thread:
> >
> >> You should probably be using gprbuild, not gnatmake.
> >
> > What is the difference? Is gprbuild a newer version of gnatmake? What are
> > their differences?
>
> gnatmake is part of the compiler suite (it's used in the compiler
> build). gprbuild is not part of the compiler; it used only to be
> generally available in source form as part of GNAT GPL releases, but
> nowadays it's on github[1].
One feature of gprbuild is that it is multi-language; by default it knows how to build C, C++, and Ada programs, and you can teach it about compilers for other languages.
Simon Wright
Jul 13, 2017, 10:12:48 AM7/13/17
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Stephen Leake <stephe...@stephe-leake.org> writes:
> On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 1:03:52 AM UTC-5, Simon Wright wrote:
>> gnatmake is part of the compiler suite (it's used in the compiler
>> build). gprbuild is not part of the compiler; it used only to be
>> generally available in source form as part of GNAT GPL releases, but
>> nowadays it's on github[1].
>
> This is misleading. gprbuild is in the GNAT GPL and supported
> releases; since 2014 it's bundled with the compiler.
Agree that binary releases from AdaCore contain a matching gprbuild. But
> On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 1:03:52 AM UTC-5, Simon Wright wrote:
>> gnatmake is part of the compiler suite (it's used in the compiler
>> build). gprbuild is not part of the compiler; it used only to be
>> generally available in source form as part of GNAT GPL releases, but
>> nowadays it's on github[1].
>
> This is misleading. gprbuild is in the GNAT GPL and supported
> releases; since 2014 it's bundled with the compiler.
other binary releases didn't; for example, Debian and my Mac releases
had to use the latest source from GNAT GPL.
If you build the compiler from sources there will be a gnatmake; but
there will not be a gprbuild, because gprbuild is not part of the
compiler itself.
Victor Porton
Jul 13, 2017, 11:01:56 AM7/13/17
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gnatmake of my GCC 7.1.0 (not 8.0.0) does accept project files:
gnatmake -p -c -Plibrdf.gpr -XLIBRARY_KIND=static -XOBJ_DIR=./obj-static -
Xsoversion=librdf-ada.so.2.0.15 -XMODE=Install -XDEBUG_MODE=check
> [1] https://github.com/AdaCore/gprbuild
Simon Wright
Jul 13, 2017, 12:17:32 PM7/13/17
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Victor Porton <por...@narod.ru> writes:
> Simon Wright wrote:
>> but in fact GCC 8.0.0's gnatmake will accept project files (to some
>> extent, anyway, on a simple test).
>
> "Will"?
In the sense of "is prepared to", equivalent to "does", near enough
> gnatmake of my GCC 7.1.0 (not 8.0.0) does accept project files:
>
> gnatmake -p -c -Plibrdf.gpr -XLIBRARY_KIND=static -XOBJ_DIR=./obj-static -
> Xsoversion=librdf-ada.so.2.0.15 -XMODE=Install -XDEBUG_MODE=check
But that may be because gnatmake is in fact invoking gprbuild; if
compilation logs look like
compile
[Ada] foo.adb
then they are from gprbuild.
> Simon Wright wrote:
>> but in fact GCC 8.0.0's gnatmake will accept project files (to some
>> extent, anyway, on a simple test).
>
> "Will"?
> gnatmake of my GCC 7.1.0 (not 8.0.0) does accept project files:
>
> gnatmake -p -c -Plibrdf.gpr -XLIBRARY_KIND=static -XOBJ_DIR=./obj-static -
> Xsoversion=librdf-ada.so.2.0.15 -XMODE=Install -XDEBUG_MODE=check
compilation logs look like
compile
[Ada] foo.adb
then they are from gprbuild.
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