From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.68.107.33 with SMTP id gz1mr11011968pbb.5.1405450703912; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:58:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.35.164 with SMTP id i4mr164038igj.8.1405450703631; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!h18no1087399igc.0!news-out.google.com!gf2ni861igb.0!nntp.google.com!h18no2183776igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:58:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=206.188.60.100; posting-account=ctJm-AoAAABQaCDtzbgPWk5DGAl9lKGW NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.188.60.100 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ada and opengl From: pincerfae@gmail.com Injection-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:58:23 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20949 Date: 2014-07-15T11:58:23-07:00 List-Id: On Sunday, July 13, 2014 9:03:08 PM UTC-7, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > On 7/13/2014 7:44 PM, pincerfae@gmail.com wrote: > > > hello. I was wondering if I need to learn c programming before I can use ada to learn opengl. > > > > > > I was able to grab a tutorial on how to use the opengl api with the c programming language. > > > > > > unfortunately, I haven't been able to find an ada equivalent, nor any instructions > > >on how to set up the ada opengl bindings with my compiler (I have ada-gide). > > > > > > > fyi, There are 3 Ada bindings to openGL listed here > > > > http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Language_bindings#Ada > > > > --Nasser yes. I have one of them. with virtually no instructions on how to get them to be used or referenced by my compiler. it doesn't help that the 'makefile' command is apparently to be used in a unix environment when I'm running windows 7. the bindings are just sitting somewhere on my hard drive, wasting space.