Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available

[clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley)]

In article <1126797631.713038.277490@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
> 
> Larry Kilgallen a =E9crit :
>>
>> Has anybody gone through their signup procedure to determine for which
>> platforms they offer this ?
>>
>> Their last set of offerings of non-commercial compilers never seemed
>> to include VMS.  I am not a VMS hobbyists, but I have friends who are.
> 

You can see the list without signing up, and yes, this was the first thing
that I checked. :-)

> They offer x86-linux (compiled against glibc 2.3), ppc-darwin
> (includes MacOS X), and x86-windows.  No VMS, I'm afraid.  But you can
> compile for VMS from the sources; GNAT supports VMS.
> 

The last public version of GNAT for VMS was 3.12p.

Compiling GNAT from source on VMS is very hard without ACT support,
otherwise I would have done it by now. I have built many native (and some
cross-compiler) versions of GNAT/GCC on Linux, and solved various build
problems while doing so, but I have never been able to successfully build
GNAT from source on VMS.

The first problem is setting up a functioning build environment as ACT
appear to use private ported versions of the various Unix tools and the
public versions (in the form of the GNV tools from HP) either fail with
various errors or cause configure to hang.

Once you get past that, it is uncertain if all the necessary changes are
present in the public binutils sources. That one was pointed out to me
by someone trying to port GCC-3.3 (just C/C++, no GNAT) to VMS.

Since my interest in Ada is not work related, I just switched to using
Linux for my Ada projects.

Check the comp.os.vms newsgroup archives for details if you are interested.

Simon.

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