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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Cross-toolchain for DS [was: Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome
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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:40:39 +0000 (UTC)
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Natasha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@instinctive.eu> wrote:
> Hello,

Hi

> I'm looking forward to it.

You've reminded me of a target I was going to try years back when I bought
a ndsi but then found it'll never be hacked. I'm going add a blog entry
about that once my new site is going.

> FWIW, I have already started with devkitARM build scripts (after some
> tweaking to make it work on a FreeBSD host), added Ada to the list in
> --enable-languages.
> 
> I'm currently stumbling on the gnat* not being installed (there are a
> lot of messages like "install: gnatchop: No such file or directory"
> and even a "You must first build the GNAT library: make gnatlib").

Yup massive pain in the arse. The point is to be able to build a bare metal
target without a runtime as iirc the debilitate thing really builds  an
arm-elf target for c, no headers, then new lib, then arm-elf for c and
other languages.

I was going to replace their nds libs with Ada specific packages, no c.

> I will be digging into it, but any insight to help me there would be
> welcome.

It's not easy by any stretch if the imagination and the documentation is
the source, which sucks.

As mentioned in another thread, openada, I have been trying to get my tamp
scripts into a better condition to go into a separate repo aimed
specifically at this and some other targets.

Luke