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From: Chris Powell <chris.powell@rrds.co.uk>
Subject: Tips for conversion from Apex to GNAT
Date: 1999/12/22
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Does anyone have any tips for converting Apex based Ada system to build
under GNAT? Some obvious potential pitfalls spring to mind: the
compatibility of libraries (we cross compile to PowerPC, VxWorks), the
file extension mapping from Apex .1.ada/.2.ada to .ads/.adb,
inconsistencies in implementation-defined areas of the compilers...

Perhaps someone has written a wizzo makefile that can build an
application directly from views in an Apex tower using GNAT?

We are interested to see if the application builds any quicker: we spend
a lot of time waiting for builds under Apex.

Thanks in advance; Chris Powell.