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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b09296b102b861bc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Tomis=B3aw_Kity=F1ski?= Subject: Re: How to compile with GNAT? Date: 2000/11/22 Message-ID: <3a1bb508$1@news.vogel.pl>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 696619128 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <8veve4$d4r$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: synaps.id.pl X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Complaints-To: Usenet@news.vogel.pl X-Trace: 22 Nov 2000 12:59:04 +0100, synaps.id.pl X-MSMail-Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Ted Dennison wrote: > > First off, the current public version of Gnat is 3.13p. Any version = 2.X > is probably well over 4 years old. You *really* don't want to use a > version that old. >=20 Uhm, yup, there's source for some 3.x version on GG server, but first I wanted to run that thing at all (well, I'm a nebie in Ada --- I'm used more to C/C++/Java stuff than Modula/Pascal/Ada langs), and since we = have "paraller programming" (or mulitasking programming? hell knows 8) course here at technical university, we need Ada. Most of task to solve are very simple and I strongly doubt I'll be in need of some very advanced features of newer versions of GNAT, however now I consider downloading more up to date sources of GNAT. > Secondly, in the most recent versions "gnatmake hello.adb" would try = to > build an executable from the compilation unit "hello" in "hello.adb". > That's what I supposed 8) > The fact that it tries to do something and dies nastily (rather than > giving you some error message) tells me that the port you have is > probably bad. > I tought it generates executable to stdio, but >hello didn't help (it goes very probably to stderr) and using -q caused no garbage = generation, but as I said in previous article --- at some point it crashed the whole system. But to be honest --- I don't believe it's bad --- if it's = accesible on GG server, I suppose it had to be tested, isn't it? There at least = should be possibility to compile the simplest prog, am I wrong? Well, maybe... > You are almost certianly going to have to take that issue > (along with the documentation issue) up with the people who built that > port (GeekGadgets?). > Seems like hard task, since --- as I said before --- there's not even a smalest README --- just bin/ and lib/. Well, never mind. > Given its vintage, I wish you the best of luck. But > in order to get your school work done, you may well have to use a > supported platform. >=20 I got APUS (Linux PPC) on my Amiga too, and even second intel machine with W98/Linux, but, you know, I'd like to do it on my Amiga 8) Finally if there's a port of GNAT for AmigaOS, why not to use it? > I'm not at all unsympathetic. I happen to have two Amigas at home. > 8)))=20 > Back > when I was developing software on them, I used Modula-2 because that = was > the best language available for the Amiga. But I would have switched = to > Ada in a minute if it was available. >=20 Uhm, well, as I started "real" programming on Amiga, I picked Asm/C, since it was the most effective/popular languages, at these times. I = don't know much about Modula-2 or Oberon, but AFAIR it is in some kind similar = to Pascal? (Sorry, if you now start laughing out loudly 8). Well, I didn't = liked Pascal too much, and now Ada looks kind of similar (at least at first = sight). Of course Ada have very powerful features (e.g. generic packages wheter procedures) which Pascal lacks, and maybe-maybe I will convice myself = more to Ada. But, you know, I need it working on AmigaOS --- I don't like Windows (which I use at work --- I am Java programmer); Linux is much = more interresting, but I know AmigaOS the best and I simply get used to it. > Again, good luck to you. >=20 Thank you for all the help, I hope to manage it somehow. Bye bye! 8) --=20 ** Cromax of Alchemy, proud Amiga user since 1988. | sf, grunge, ufo, = ** ** Coding, programming, painting, playing drums. | vegetarian food. = **