Installation

This chapter explains how to build and install the library.

Using Alire

The Ada Utility Library is available as several Alire crates to simplify the installation and setup your project. Run the following commands to setup your project to use the library:

alr index --update-all
alr with utilada
alr with utilada_xml
alr with utilada_unit
alr with utilada_curl
alr with utilada_aws
alr with utilada_lzma

Without Alire

Before Building

Before building the library, you will need:

First get, build and install the XML/Ada and then get, build and install the Ada Utility Library.

Configuration

The library uses the configure script to detect the build environment, check whether XML/Ada, AWS, Curl support are available and configure everything before building. If some component is missing, the configure script will report an error or it will disable the feature. The configure script provides several standard options and you may use:

  • --prefix=DIR to control the installation directory,
  • --enable-shared to enable the build of shared libraries,
  • --disable-static to disable the build of static libraries,
  • --enable-distrib to build for a distribution and strip symbols,
  • --disable-distrib to build with debugging support,
  • --enable-coverage to build with code coverage support (-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage),
  • --disable-traceback to disable the support for symbolic traceback by the logging framework,
  • --disable-ahven to disable building the Ahven support used by the Ada utility testing framework,
  • --enable-aunit to enable building the AUnit support used by the Ada utility testing framework,
  • --disable-curl to disable the support for CURL,
  • --disable-aws to disable the support for AWS,
  • --disable-lzma to disable the support for LZMA,
  • --with-xmlada=PATH to control the installation path of XML/Ada,
  • --with-aws=PATH to control the installation path of AWS,
  • --with-ada-lzma=PATH to control the installation path of Ada LZMA,
  • --enable-link-options-util=opts to add some linker options when building the Ada Util shared library,
  • --enable-link-options-curl=opts to add some linker options when building the Ada Util Curl shared library,
  • --help to get a detailed list of supported options.

In most cases you will configure with the following command:

./configure

Building to get a shared library can sometimes be a real challenge. With GNAT 2018, you can configure as follows:

./configure --enable-shared

But with some other versions of the Ada compiler, you may need to add some linker options to make sure that the generated shared library is useable. Basically, it happens that the -ldl is not passed correctly when the shared library is created and when it is used you end up with missing symbols such as dlopen, dlclose, dlsym and dlerror. When this happens, you can fix by re-configuring and adding the missing option with the following command:

./configure --enable-shared --enable-link-options-util=--no-as-needed,-ldl,--as-needed

Build

After configuration is successful, you can build the library by running:

make

After building, it is good practice to run the unit tests before installing the library. The unit tests are built and executed using:

make test

And unit tests are executed by running the bin/util_harness test program.

Installation

The installation is done by running the install target:

make install

If you want to install on a specific place, you can change the prefix and indicate the installation direction as follows:

make install prefix=/opt

Using

To use the library in an Ada project, add the following line at the beginning of your GNAT project file:

with "utilada";

If you use only a subset of the library, you may use the following GNAT projects:

GNAT project Description
utilada_core Provides: Util.Concurrent, Util.Strings, Util.Texts,
Util.Locales, Util.Refs, Util.Stacks, Util.Listeners
Util.Executors
utilada_base Provides: Util.Beans, Util.Commands, Util.Dates,
Util.Events, Util.Files, Util.Log, Util.Properties,
Util.Systems
utilada_sys Provides: Util.Encoders, Util.Measures,
Util.Processes, Util.Serialize, Util.Streams
utilada_lzma Provides: Util.Encoders.Lzma, Util.Streams.Buffered.Lzma
utilada_aws Provides HTTP client support using AWS
utilada_curl Provides HTTP client support using CURL
utilada_http Provides Util.Http
utilada Uses all utilada GNAT projects except the unit test library
utilada_unit Support to write unit tests on top of Ahven or AUnit