Installing GNAT 1.83 on DOS

Installing GNAT 1.83 on DOS

[Apinetr Unakul]

I'm a newbie trying to install a GNAT on DOS. I have problem binding 
even my first "hello world" program with the folloging message.

gnatbl hello.ali -o hello
Cannot find: s-stalib.ali
Error executing C:\LANG\DJGPP\BIN\gnatbind.exe
make.exe: *** [hello] Error 1

I can't find a "s-stalib.ali" anywhere. What am I doing wrong?
Please help or point me to something I can work on.

Thanx.

Re: Installing GNAT 1.83 on DOS

[Robert Dewar]

I guess this needs posting pretty frequently!

Please send GNAT trouble reports to gnat-report@cs.nyu.edu.

(since this is one of the directions that is prominent in the readme file,
it's a reasonable guess that people NOT sending trouble reports to that
address who have installation problems probably are seeing results of not
following the installation instructions carefully. Anyway we are happy
to help out but most of the team does not read CLA, or if they do, they
certainly don't try to keep current with it. So send your questions to the
official address please. It's fine as far as I am concerned to post them
here too, but the important thing is to get them to gnat-request.)

Thanks

P.S. we know that the installation procedures for the PC versions are not
anywhere as smooth as they should be, and on our list is to improve these,
but this is not at the top of our list yet, so for the moment, be careful
to follow the directions very carefully!

Re: Installing GNAT 1.83 on DOS

[Jack Beidler]

In article <3a99uq$jtc@news.bu.edu>, pong@bu.edu (Apinetr Unakul) writes:
|> I'm a newbie trying to install a GNAT on DOS. I have problem binding 
|> even my first "hello world" program with the folloging message.
|> 
|> gnatbl hello.ali -o hello
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^
             reverse

|> Cannot find: s-stalib.ali
|> Error executing C:\LANG\DJGPP\BIN\gnatbind.exe
|> make.exe: *** [hello] Error 1
|> 
|> I can't find a "s-stalib.ali" anywhere. What am I doing wrong?
|> Please help or point me to something I can work on.
|> 
|> Thanx.
|> 
|> 
It looks to me like your "gnatbl" command is in error.  I've done the
following to make life easy for myself and my students by doing the
following:

I created three batch files that are placed in the c:\djgpp\bin
subdirectory

compile.bat contains
     gcc -c -gnatl %1 > output.lst

link.bat contains
   gnatbl -o %1 %1.ali

run.bat contains
   go32 %1

to help me and my students avoid typos and are easy to use if you
have doskey installed.  I've done the same thing
on the unix box for compiling and linking, c9x l9x.
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