Re: GNAT for Macintosh

[james hopper <nospam@nospam.com>]

In article <20000207235437.23586.00001679@ng-fu1.aol.com>, EKoerber
<ekoerber@aol.com> wrote:

> You can figure that all G3 and G4 Macs will be able to run Mac OS X.
> After that, it gets less clear (unless there is more info somewhere that
> I haven't seen yet).  I would be VERY surprised to see Mac OS X run
> on NuBus PowerMacs.

sorry i have been on the road again (still am)  When iam not working,
soaking up the sun here in warm and cheery phoenix!  

Anyway Ada of mac is this as far as i know (which is most of whats
going on):

1. gnat port is up to date using tenon.  codebuilder can be another
unix but i use it pretty much the same way i use MPW (apples
develoipment environment for mac).  you can build mac apps and learn
very littel unix.

2. Mac OS X 
         - i have had it for ove a year (maybe more like 2) as various
betas however the gcc on it sucks to put it kindly for doing gnat. 
until recently the only choice was 2.7.2 version which was pretty hard
to work with when doing a cross compiler etc.  its been a long time
since you could build gnat from 2.7.2.

i talked several times to folks inside apple in charge of gcc and they
seem to feel that it was going to be a lot of work to move to 2.8.1.
howver eventually they did do a port to egcs which is part of darwin. 
however you cant build gnat with this version of egcs, at least i cant. 
i am sure act could so if someone has some bucks you could talk to
them.  

i am waiting for gcc 3.0 to come out and hoping that apple does a port
to it for os x.  then i will have a base to do the port of gnat.  right
now i wouldnt be holding my breath for gnat to be available anytime
soon.

as far as waiting for OS X as you mention you are aware that your are
looking at this summer/fall before its going to be real available even
if i get the port done, unless you become and developer and sign apples
seed agreement.


anyway thats where it stands now.  if you want to do ada in the short
term get codebuilder and use it like mpw as a developmen env. with mac
based tools like bbedit/alpha, etc.

jim