From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,77f5e85b95c6168a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: james hopper Subject: Re: GNAT for Macintosh Date: 2000/02/09 Message-ID: <090220002257250898%nospam@nospam.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 584008109 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <389EEA82.6D3FA3D7@maths.unine.ch> <20000207235437.23586.00001679@ng-fu1.aol.com> Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 User-Agent: YA-NewsWatcher/4.2.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <20000207235437.23586.00001679@ng-fu1.aol.com>, EKoerber 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