Re: GNAT JVM/AVR/Mindstorms on GNU/Linux?

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

deadlyhead wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> Just wondering if anybody has had any success using GNAT targeting
> either JVM, AVR-elf or Mindstorms NXT from a GNU/Linux environment.
> I've been trying to build a JVM cross-compiler on my Debian system
> with the latest stable GCC release, but have met only with failure.
> Comparing the patches provided by Adacore and the GCC development
> tree, it looks like I might have success when GCC 4.6 is released, but
> until then I think I'm stuck.

If you really need GCC 4.6, then I suggest you use it :)  You don't
have to wait for another year for the release of 4.6.0; you can
compile from the sources any day.  OK, you might run into bugs but
your reports would then be very valuable; the fixes would make it into
4.6.0.  Note that the end of Stage 1 is scheduled for today; from then
on the sources of GCC 4.6 will be quite stable (no new features, bug
fixes only).

> I'd really like to develop for the NXT system, too.  [...]

FTR, I'd be interested too if I had more time on my hands.  My son is
only 5, so it's a bit too soon for him anyway.  It would be great if
Debian would include a cross-compiler for the NXT, nicely packaged and
ready to go...

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Ludovic Brenta.