I have an upcoming Ada project (command-line interactive console program) and I would like to use something like ncurses to make screen management simpler.
I have installed the following packages (under Ubuntu 19.10 with latest updates):
In the "....../libncursesada-doc/examples/" directory there are quite a few demo programs, attempting to build any of them causes complaints such as:
$ gnatmake rain
aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-8 -c rain.adb
rain.adb:44:06: file "terminal_interface.ads" not found
rain.adb:44:06: "Rain (body)" depends on "Ncurses2.Util (spec)"
rain.adb:44:06: "Ncurses2.Util (spec)" depends on "Terminal_Interface (spec)"
rain.adb:47:06: file "terminal_interface.ads" not found
gnatmake: "rain.adb" compilation error
Does this missing file indicate that this set of packages is broken or have I simply missed one out somewhere?
Or to put it another way, am I barking up the wrong tree with ncurses? Is there a modern alternative that plays nicely with Ada?
This worked for me on Debian 10.
GNAT version:
$ gnat --version
GNAT 8.3.0
Copyright (C) 1996-2018, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Install:
$ sudo apt-get install \
libncurses-dev \
libncursesada-doc \
libncursesada6.2.20180127 \
libncursesada6.2.20180127-dev
Create a new dir:
$ cd ~
$ mkdir rain
$ cd ~/rain
Now build. In this case, we need to provide references to the source dirs using -aI (see also here) and link with libncursesada using -largs -lncursesada (see also here):
$ gnatmake \
-aI/usr/share/doc/libncursesada-doc/examples \
-aI/usr/share/ada/adainclude/ncursesada \
rain.adb \
-largs -lncursesada