Re: A new universe of Ada

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 2022-09-26 09:11, Rick Duley wrote:
> You missed the point, Dmitry.    Showing me the code for Hello_World does not show me how to create the program using Gnat Studio.

Hmm, programs are created by typing them in an editor...

> Firstly, I do not understand the concept of a _Project_.

Project is an executable or shared/static library.

> Until a couple of days ago I had never heard the term in reference to Ada Programming.

It always existed. E.g. Ada 83 Reference Manual called it "the program 
library". See ARM 83 (10.4)

> Secondly, I can write Hello_World.adb and have it included in my 'Project', I can even build it, but the only thing that will run is _Main_.

No, I provided the project file where the main procedure is called 
Hello_World.

> I cannot find any documentation about Studio which explains something as simple as the creation of Hello_World.exe.  Can you do that in Studio or is it purely ornamental?

I am not sure what you mean. I think one can create a new project in GPS 
by clicking File->New Project. I never do that. I create project *files* 
using Notepad++ or GPS editor as text file.

> Thirdly, I was never a good enough programmer to be able to write programs without bugs.  Perhaps you have reached that exalted stage but I certainly have not.  Therefore I have a need to debug.  How do I do that?

As I said, GPS has integrated support for GDB. Theoretically you should 
be able to do visual debugging. Click Debug->Initialize in GPS. In 
practice GDB is garbage, but that has nothing to do with either Ada or GPS.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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