Re: GNAT for Mac?

[gasser@masg1.epfl.ch (Laurent Gasser)]

In article <3albc4$9g3@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
|> THe history is that there was a GCC version 1 port for the MAC, done I
|> think by someone at Apple. But this port ran under MPW, so it was of
|> limited use.

I have a stand-alone GCC version 1.* for Mac (done by Johnatan Kimmit).
It does require the Mac OS headers of another compiler and I am not 
sure it is self-compiling.  It can be found on nic.switch.ch in 
folders of Think C.

A single person was working on a port of GCC 2.6* at Apple during free
time.  I vaguely remember a post of him saying he was now working at 
Cygnus.  If my memory doesn't fail me, he was sad that not enough
interest was coming from Mac users.  Most of the call for support were 
about Atari, or similar computers.  (At Cygnus, no call for support = 
no money for development.)

A commercial, multiplateform (68K and PPC) compiler like Metrowerks 
CodeWarrior including C, C++, and Pascal with 3 updates during the 
annual subscription comes for $99 for students.  Who will do better 
for less?

|> What is needed is a native port of GCC 2.6.2. As I noted in a previous
|> message, I believe there is some activity at Cygnus. If you want a port
|> of GCC there are three things you can do:
|> 
|>   1)  do it yourself, the most useful, but the most difficult alternative
|>   2)  let the folks at Apple know you really want a port
|>   3)  let the folks at Cygnus (gumby@cygnus.com) know that you really 
|> 	want a port.
|> 
|> Note that Cygnus is interested in selling support for GCC, so your 
|> interest is more interesting to them if you are need to use MAC/GCC 
|> or MAC/GNAT for serious work requiring commercial support :-)
|> 

If work done for GNU is not advertised by GNU, who will know about it?

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