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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: ada and opengl
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:20:58 +0300
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On 14-07-16 02:15 , pincerfae@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 12:21:31 PM UTC-7, Marius Amado-Alves
> wrote:
>> Strictly you have to understand OpenGL, not C.
> 
>> (Not to discourage you, but OpenGL is huge, specially in the number
>> of different ways available to do basically the same thing.
>> Unfortunately the existing Ada bindings do not solve this. And
>> unfortunately there is no good OpenGL book that solves this
>> either.)
> 
> I'm already discouraged, and it has nothing to do with the size or
> vastness of the opengl language.
> 
> I have the bindings for my laptop (which is win 7), and no way to use
> them. I'm unable to compile ANY programs with opengl because of error
> messages stating  that certain files (like gl.ads, for example) are
> missing.
> 
> the files are there. I downloaded them. but the compiler does not see
> them. HOW CAN THIS BE FIXED?

Tell us which compiler (GNAT?) and which IDE (GPS?) you are using and
how you have placed your code and the OpenGL bindings into folders, and
then we might be able to help you tell the compiler/IDE how to find the
files.

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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