Re: GNAT for Macintosh

[Matthew Majka <matthew.majka@honeywell.com>]

EKoerber wrote:
> 
> OK.. I'll try again.  Mac OS X Server (available now) and Mac OS X
> (available later this year) are composed of BSD Unix with more-or-less, the
> traditional Mac OS GUI grafted onto the front-end.  All of
> the standard BSD Unix things should already be available as part of
> the operating system because it ***IS*** Unix.  Therefore, having
> a second flavor of Unix (MachTen) running concurrently should be
> unnecessary.  A large effort as was required to do convince gcc that it
> is running in a Unix environment, as was required with Win32, should
> also be unnecessary because there already is a Unix environment.
> 
> I talked to some folks on here last year about this before Mac OS X
> Server was available and a port had not been done yet.  However, I
> thought that I would check in again, just in case things had changed.

It is also my understanding, from reading Apple's developer info on
MacOS X, that the native development environment for MacOS X is/will be
GCC and GDB, so at the least Apple has done this port for Objective-C
(C/C++?).  From there I suspect that adding GNAT would not be difficult
at all.

Matt

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Matthew Majka - Systems/Software Engineer
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