How to handle platform/feature-specific code?

• alire

  29 255 9.3 Ada

  Command-line tool from the Alire project and supporting library

  

Your post made me remember a feature I wanted to add to Alire for a long time. So here you go, in the next version of Alire it should be quite easy to support platform specific code: https://github.com/alire-project/alire/pull/961/files

• trendy_terminal

  3 4 0.0 Ada

  A Windows/Linux library for enabling terminal settings and driving character-by-character input.

The typical way that I've seen is to use the build system to change out body implementations for the platform being compiled. This is modeled after the traditional notion of treating translation units like "modules" in C and C++. When I wrote Trendy Terminal, that's the route that I took. This route avoids virtual function call (dynamic dispatch) overhead.

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• Ada_GUI

  10 35 6.3 Ada

  An Ada-oriented GUI

(Actually, for a GUI, the solution is to use a portable GUI such as Ada GUI, but for other cases this approach may be needed.)

• gwindows

  2 18 8.4 Ada

  GWindows: GUI framework for MS Windows

For the Windows side, you could consider the GWindows framework: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnavi/ , https://github.com/zertovitch/gwindows instead of win32ada.

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