alire VS Ada_Drivers_Library

> I don't know if this tool solves the problem

Not yet but it's on my list as a "phase 2" of sorts for getada. I have an alpine VPS that I'm playing around with but the main issue is that while alire can be built for alpine, any compilers it pulls from its toolchain won't work with it since none of them are built against musl. We've been talking about it here https://github.com/alire-project/alire/issues/792#issuecomme...

Join the club! And see this issue.

Alire brings in msys2, so that's why I'm curious if it's still working on Windows. Easiest way to install alire on Windows is through the installer linked on their main website.

We are considering if Alire should change defaults in regard to dealing with Unicode sources. The details are https://github.com/alire-project/alire/discussions/1334 if you're interested and want to provide some feedback.

It's also worth mentioning that Ada and SPARK are very easy to pick up these days. There's Cargo-like tool Alire [1], Ada Language Server [2], official VSCode plugin [3] and Open VSX plugin [4], Emacs Ada mode [5] and GNAT Studio [6]. With Alire one can easily install GNAT FSF builds (meaning GPL with linking exception) and SPARK tools. All libre software.

Not to mention Ada being really versatile and well thought out language.

[1] https://github.com/alire-project/alire

#1157 on Alire's GitHub page raises this issue as well. I've placed a comment over there. If the website's code is located on GitHub, it would be easier for users to contribute and get deployed automatically.

Hi, I'm trying to compile any example from the project Ada_Drivers_Library, but it seems that I can't get the toolchain correctly installed:

Trying to fix a problem with the accelerometer, actually with TWI (a.k.a. I2C) on BBC Micro:bit (v1): PR raised.

Tried to work out why TWI (Nordic’s I2C) doesn’t work on BBC micro:bit (v1.3b, anyway). Failed, so far.

Spent days to make MAG3110 work on Micro:bit, but then Fabien told me that it has been fixed in April. It appears that my local clone of Ada Drivers Library wasn't updated! :(

Got I2C & SPI drivers for the LPS25H barometric sensor accepted in the Ada Drivers Library.

You could take a look into the Ada_Drivers_Library. It provides BSPs and examples for different boards, so that's an easy way to get started. For the start you could get any of the boards supported there, depending on the hardware features you want to have.