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Installing and compiling your programs 

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If you have a previous version of GtkAda on your system, we recommend that

you move/remove it using e.g. the following command:

   $ mv <prefix>/include/gtkada <prefix/include/gtkada.old

where <prefix> is the prefix you used to configure GtkAda the first time.

The default prefix is /usr/local. If you don't have the rights to move

these files, then you should at least make sure that your ADA_INCLUDE_PATH

and your ADA_OBJECTS_PATH don't include this directory before building GtkAda.

To install GtkAda, you first need to install GNU make, glib, pango, atk and

gtk+, then do the following:

If you are under Windows, you need to use GCC 3.2 (or later) to build the

C files, and a unix-like environment (e.g. cygwin or msys) where the paths

correspond to real Windows path (for instance by installing cygwin under

the root directory). You can use an older GCC version for the Ada files

(gnatmake). Under sh:

   $ (cd src; patch -p0 < ../contrib/gtkada-2.10-win32.diff)

   $ CC='gcc-3.2 -mms-bitfields' ./configure --prefix=<install_dir> \

       --build=i386-pc-mingw32

   $ make

   $ make install

On others platforms:

   $ ./configure --prefix=<install_dir>

   $ make

   $ make install

This will create (and install) the GtkAda library and then compile the

testgtk example.

Note that you might have to be root to install GtkAda on your system.

You should also modify your PATH variable to include the installation

directory, or copy the gtkada-config script somewhere in your path

   $ setenv PATH <installation_directory>:$PATH

or

   $ export PATH=<installation_directory>:$PATH

Finally, update your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to include the <prefix>/lib

directory, so that the linker can find the libraries.  The other

alternative under GNU/Linux if you have root priviledges is to add this

'prefix/lib' directory added in /etc/ld.conf and then run ldconfig.

Then, when you want to compile your application, simply use the

gtkada-config script:

   $ gnatmake <your_application> <your_switches> `gtkada-config`

This will automatically submit the correct paths to gnatmake so that

the gtk and gtkada libraries are found.