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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,45cf1fc1b1a9dade X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-18 20:19:12 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!heifetz.msen.com!yale.edu!yale!mcculley From: mcculley@greatwall.cctt.com (Gene McCulley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT for Mac? Date: 18 Nov 1994 14:13:09 GMT Organization: CCTT, Orlando, FL Message-ID: <3aicpl$gou@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: greatwall.cctt.com Date: 1994-11-18T14:13:09+00:00 List-Id: In article , fstiffo@unive.it (Francesco Stiffoni) writes: |> GNAT, why there's not a port for Macintosh? Did you send this question to gnat-report@cs.nyu.edu also? If not, you should. It seems to me that GNAT for Mac will not be an easy thing to achieve, since GNAT needs GCC and there is not much support for GCC on the Mac. From the Mac programming FAQ: 1.3) Q: Where do I find a public domain C compiler for the Mac. Is there a GCC for the mac? What about the FSF boycott of Apple products? A: There is no really good solution for a "for-free" C development system for the Mac. GCC has been ported, but requires the MPW shell and MPW assembler to run; these have to be bought from APDA. There is a standalone port of GCC 1.37 on nic.switch.ch:software/mac/src/think_c. There was a freely available C compiler called Harvest C, which was somewhat unstable but usable for smaller programs; it was abandoned by the original author Eric W Sink because of a lack of time and later taken up by the TopSoft project. The FSF boycott of Apple products means they will not talk to you if you ask them for help in doing a Mac port, and they will not incorporate your changes into their main code base. However, they still allow others to port GNU stuff to the Mac, and it has been done with most of the application-like GNU programs (bison, flex, perl (not really part of GNU), ...) gcc-1.37r14 V1.1 standalone is available for ftp at nic.switch.ch: software/mac/src/think_c. A fairly stable port of GCC 2.3.3 to MPW is available for ftp at atg.apple.com [anyone know the directory?]. For those whose main interest is in developing only text based C/C++ programs, using GCC under MacMiNT might be appropriate. MacMiNT is a UNIX like operating system ported from the Atari ST which supports many freely available UNIX utilities like GCC, GDB, make, tcsh, byacc, perl, and more. MacMiNT stuff can be found at on nic.switch.ch in 'software/mac/src/macmint'. So you would have to get GCC 2.6.0 running on Mac. I don't know anything about the Mac except what I have read in the FAQ, so I don't know how hard this would be.