[AWS] Trying to build on Windows

[Marius Amado-Alves]

Great information. Thanks a lot. It's a relief to know that we can
build sans project files (eventually).

/* The required "hacking" is understanding which things are where.
That's good in my book. Project files make it difficult to achieve
that understanding. They are like the bad old makefiles--from which we
were freed by Ada and gnatmake precisely, so it's ironic to say the
least that GNAT has re-introduced them. */

2012/1/9 Björn Lundin <b.f.lundin at gmail.com>:
> 2012/1/9 Marius Amado-Alves <marius at amado-alves.info>:
>
>> PS.
>> I still would love to build sans project file. I don't understand why
>> it is required.
>
> You do not need to, but you do need some hacking around.
> This is how I do it
>
>
> c:\utility> tree aws
> c:\aws
> +---aix_ppc
> +---c
> +---choises
> ¦   +---tmpl
> +---lnx_x86
> +---win_x86
>
>
> where aws itself contains the bulk of the code
> the platform specific directories contains
> different versions of
> - aws-net-thin.ads
> - poll.adb
> and the generated aws-os_lib-definitions.ads
>
> choises contains the implementations
> that has choises
> - aws-net-ssl-certificate.adb
> - aws-net-ssl.adb
> - aws-net-std.adb
> - ssl-thin.ads
> - templates_parser-configurations.ads
> - templates_parser-input.adb
> - templates_parser-tasking.adb
>
> c contains all .c files which I
> compile, and put into an archive, libaws.a
> also I link check_config which
> i then use to create aws-os_lib-definitions.ads
>
> it is slightly hacked, to make aix work.
>
>
> Now, all you need is
> * include these directories in ADA_INCLUDE_PATH
>  or something similar, (I switch ?)
>  and link with -laws (libaws.a)
>
> of course, this only works when compiling from
> cmd-line
> And I did not try out https or ssl.
>
> But it works well for ordinary http and soap
>
> And yes, I do this for linux/win32 and aix
> mainly due to aix is not supported, and also because
> I do not use project files either (yet)
>
> --
> /Björn