Re: Ada / MS WinCE

[Rob Veenker <veenker@xs4all.nl>]

stephane.los@neuf.fr wrote:

> On 28 avr, 09:28, Ivan Levashew <octag...@bluebottle.com> wrote:
>> stephane....@neuf.fr ÐÉÛÅÔ:> On 26 avr, 21:57, Ivan Levashew
>> <octag...@bluebottle.com> wrote:
>> >> The only way I have heard of is:
>> >> GNAT for .NET => .NET CF => WinCE
>> > Merci Ivan !
>>
>> > I'll try this.
>>
>> BTW does AdaCore have any plans on releasing it as part of the GPL 2008
>> ed.? It is quite not the first time I see a question about WinCE, and
>> .NET can indeed be viewed as an hobbyist target.
>>
>> --
>> If you want to get to the top, you have to start at the bottom
> 
> I know nothing about AdaCore plans.
> I am talking about WinCE because our customers buy that platform and
> development on it.
> So I will continue with C and C++ because I have everything needed for
> the work and with Ada nothing. :-(
> 
> Another try :
> On my hardware there is an ARM CPU and I have a C/C++ Toolchain
> working together with a Linux BSP.
> What would be the steps to compile the Ada runtime and tailor the
> toolchain so it compiles Ada applications ?
> May be the Debian distribution could be a good starting point as they
> have support for ARM and GNAT...
> 
> ThanX for your attention
> Steve

AdaCore has already developed a GNATPro for .Net which generates true MSIL
code. (GNATPro means it is a supported version; don't know about a possible
public release)
I noticed that they also got JGNAT running again. JGNAT is an Ada compiler
for the Java runtime environment. We have actually used JGNAT on WinCE /
Personal Java a couple of years back :-)

And there also exists a public (Ada 95) version of A# under sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/asharp

Hope this helps,
Rob