Re: interfacing with c object link gnatmake link problem

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

On 2019-11-10 23:15, Simon Wright wrote:
> Alain De Vos <devosalain71@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I try to interface to a c library.
>> The docs,
>> https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/interfacing_with_c.html
>>
>> How to inform gnatmake that it should link to mylibrary.o ?
>>
>> I solve it currently by calling gnatlink explicitly after running gnatmake ,
>> but maybe there is a nicer solution.
>> % gnatlink mytest.ali ./maaltwee.o
> 
> % gnatmake mytest.adb -largs maaltwee.o
> 
> (-largs is followed by arguments to be passed to the linker)

My habit is to add

    pragma Linker_Options ("mylibrary.o");

to the Ada source file that imports the C functions. Then there is no 
need to add options to the gnatmake command.

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Niklas Holsti
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