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: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!209.244.4.230!newsfeed1.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news.binc.net!clubley From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available Date: 15 Sep 2005 12:53:16 -0500 Organization: Encompasserve Message-ID: <0V2nBP3Grqio@eisner.encompasserve.org> References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126797631.713038.277490@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1126806727 16840 192.135.80.34 (15 Sep 2005 17:52:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:52:07 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4737 Date: 2005-09-15T12:53:16-05:00 List-Id: In article <1126797631.713038.277490@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "Ludovic Brenta" 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. -- Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP Microsoft: The Standard Oil Company of the 21st century