Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | Team Ada: Ada Programming Language Advocacy |
Date: | Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:55:20 -0400 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Rick Duley <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> I have a package which I wish to make available to students without their
> having knowledge of its contents. I believe that a copy of the
> specification and a read-only copy of the .ALI file are all that need to be
> available on the LAN. (Q.1.: is this correct?)
no, they also need the object file, or a static library containing
several object files
> My machine is a PC.
<rant>
"PC" means "Personal Computer". It does _not_ mean "Intel processor
running Microsoft Windows".
A "personal computer" could be a Mac, a Wintel, a Palm, a Linux box, a
Chrome box (if that every comes out) ...
Microsoft wants us to think that the only possible personal computer
is a box running their software. That's a _very_ good reason to resist
that nomenclature!
</rant>
I'll assume you meant Intel processor running Windows.
> I am running GAP's GPL compiler. (Q.2.: will the ALI be portable if
> a student is running a MAC or one of the Unicies?)
The ali file may be, if they have the _same_ version of GNAT.
The object or library file will most likely not be.
You'll have to build a binary for each possible target.
--
-- Stephe
|
|
|