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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d1e954ab22509c0a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!r18g2000vbs.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: jrmarino Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada cross-compiler (Windows) to Android Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:38:09 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <09b8124a-a200-407f-9e5f-4877d50088f1@r18g2000vbs.googlegroups.com> References: <12f3f5b7-5289-45c4-a346-7dc6ee2f274b@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <01b8c553-42e5-4ddc-877e-ef8f85361ac1@s17g2000yqs.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 90.38.172.56 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1310711889 29609 127.0.0.1 (15 Jul 2011 06:38:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:38:09 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r18g2000vbs.googlegroups.com; posting-host=90.38.172.56; posting-account=Zsf4jwoAAADEqwCydv835KU9-S3h_Y26 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HNKRUAELSC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.112 Safari/534.30,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:21176 Date: 2011-07-14T23:38:09-07:00 List-Id: On Jul 15, 1:52=A0am, Brian Drummond wrote: > > In short (if possible!) what is missing from stock GCC sources to prevent > this? Way too much to list. There's a reason why a separate repository exists. > Could the code you added be available in e.g. the form of patches to > apply to stock GCC? This question indicates that you are unfamiliar with the process to submit patches to gcc. To call it a nightmare would be an euphemism. Nevertheless, I have taken the first step of assigning my copyright over to gnu, but have hit a stumbling block on the sheer amount of BS it takes to get a patch first reviewed and then committed, and I have a least 50 patches. There are patches I really want to get into the codebase, so you can tell how much I'm dreading this if I haven't even submitted the first one. As an aside, it's just amazing that after 20 years, the gcc group has a whole don't recognize this to be a big enough problem to fix (although some prominent developers due). More specific answer: The patches I have that gcc wants mostly deal with *BSD support and gnat improvements. I don't think they want the android stuff (yet) anyway. Even the gcc/android doesn't mean gnat/ android. > I see that GCC4.7 is supposed to add Android as a target (but I don't > know if that just means C/C++ rather than Gnat) Likely just c/c++ > Glad to hear it! Is there anything a complete outsider (running Linux not > *bsd) can do to help? > Nothing at the moment. Maybe somebody could produce some templates to allow native Ada programs to interface with the android API. I think one can make android apps without using java at all, but it requires binding to the c-interface and all that needs to be developed. > hopefully Linux will be on the list... People have build GNAT-AUX on Linux, although personally I was unable to do it on ubuntu using the gnat from synaptic as the bootstrap. Linux isn't a focus of GNAT-AUX because Adacore makes sure it works on Linux. GNAT-AUX is meant to service the *BSDs and Solaris. Theoretically it builds on everything that stock GCC builds on, I just don't test it to verify. John