GNAT for MacOS X Server?

GNAT for MacOS X Server?

[EKoerber]

Does anyone know if there are any plans to create a version of GNAT that will
run on the Mac under MacOS X Server?  In case you are not aware of it, this
version of MacOS has
a full implementation of BSD so a port should be easy...

Re: GNAT for MacOS X Server?

[Dale Stanbrough]

EKoerber wrote:

" Does anyone know if there are any plans to create a version of GNAT that will
  run on the Mac under MacOS X Server?  In case you are not aware of it, this
  version of MacOS has
  a full implementation of BSD so a port should be easy..."


I think the sticking point will be which version of gcc OS X will support.
I'm also dont' know of the support for threading that the O/S has.

Dale

Re: GNAT for MacOS X Server?

[EKoerber]

I'm going to send you a couple of Acrobat PDF
files containing OS X specs.  Maybe they will
help.  BTW, OS X has BSD 4.4.

Re: GNAT for MacOS X Server?

[EKoerber]

MacOS has a Thread Manager and OS X 
contains a full version of BSD.

Re: GNAT for MacOS X Server?

[Dave Taylor]

EKoerber wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if there are any plans to create a version of GNAT that will
> run on the Mac under MacOS X Server?  In case you are not aware of it, this
> version of MacOS has
> a full implementation of BSD so a port should be easy...

You might try jim hopper 
             jim hopper <jhopper@erinet.com>
He has ported GNAT to Tenon's MachTen which is BSD 4.4.

Dave

Re: GNAT for MacOS X Server?

[James E. Hopper]

Hi,

Dave thanks for the plug, but new email address is 

hopeprj@macconnect.com

as to OS X, i have looked at it a lot.  things are good and bad in this.

good, OS X is changing to posix threads as its standard threads
bad, currently gcc is 2.7.2
better, beta i am told by folks within apple is using egcc
bad, memory model that apple is using in OS X gcc is quite a bit    
     different than bsd, and getting the cross compiler to work so far 
     has been hard.

when my copy of the OS X beta arrives i will build the cross compiler,
and try to get gnat to run on it. we will see how it goes.  i have a
web page at

members.macconnect.com/~hopperj

right now all it has is the current release of the machten port (3.11)
of gnat [it still has some problems building standalone mac
executables)

if i get it running thats where i will put it, i will also post status
of the effort when i get the OS X beta there.  

Note this compiler will also run on OS X server which is released if i
get it running.

jim

hopperj@macconnect.com      - home
jim_hopper@dayton.saic.com  - work

In article <374E9FE4.7463E137@ionet.net>, Dave Taylor
<dtaylor@ionet.net> wrote:

> EKoerber wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone know if there are any plans to create a version of GNAT that
> > will
> > run on the Mac under MacOS X Server?  In case you are not aware of it, this
> > version of MacOS has
> > a full implementation of BSD so a port should be easy...
> 
> You might try jim hopper 
>              jim hopper <jhopper@erinet.com>
> He has ported GNAT to Tenon's MachTen which is BSD 4.4.
> 
> Dave

Re: GNAT for MacOS X Server?

[Richard Kenner]

In article <310519991513483851%hopperj@macconnect.com> "James E. Hopper" <hopperj@macconnect.com> writes:
>bad, currently gcc is 2.7.2
>better, beta i am told by folks within apple is using egcc

My understanding is that the version of EGCS being used at present
is quite old, so the news isn't as good as you might think.  It will
probably be quite tricky to get a reliable GNAT running on that version.

Precisely what version of GCC/EGCS will be used in the final MacOS X
release is far from clear at this point.

Re: GNAT for MacOS X Server?

[James E. Hopper]

In article <HxMa3.12$Lc3.553@typhoon.nyu.edu>, Richard Kenner
<kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote:

> In article <310519991513483851%hopperj@macconnect.com> "James E. Hopper"
> <hopperj@macconnect.com> writes:
> >bad, currently gcc is 2.7.2
> >better, beta i am told by folks within apple is using egcc
> 
> My understanding is that the version of EGCS being used at present
> is quite old, so the news isn't as good as you might think.  It will
> probably be quite tricky to get a reliable GNAT running on that version.
> 
> Precisely what version of GCC/EGCS will be used in the final MacOS X
> release is far from clear at this point.

Richard, 

yes thats true.  i got the OS X beta this week but havent looked at it
yet.  Sam told me that egcc was probably to be on it, but havent looked
at it yet.  He said they had version egcs 1.1.2 running in the lab.  I
don't know what theversions of egcc are to say if this is old or not?

 i will at least try it to see how it works as soon as i can clear off
enough disk space to install the os X worstation beta.

best jim