Re: FSF GNAT on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, does it exist?

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

Simon Wright wrote:
> Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes (not in this order):
> 
>> My searches and tests have so far only found GNAT versions that do not
>> work on Snow Leopard, including GNAT GPL 2009, which crashes with
>> segmentation fault.
> 
> If you go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/files/ and navigate
> to GNAT_GPL Mac OS X > 2009-snow-leopard you'll find 64- and 32-bit
> compilers. Note, both want to install at /:

Thanks, I will try that one, when next I get my hands on the Mac (that I 
borrow for this purpose). I tried the GNAT GPL from AdaCore Libre, which 
segfaulted. But I would really need an FSF-licenced compiler, because 
some of my source code is under NDA from other parties and can't be opened.

>> Is there an FSF-derived version of GNAT that runs on the "Snow
>> Leopard" version of Mac OS X?
> 
> At the moment I'm running gcc version 4.5.0 20100221 (experimental)
> [trunk revision 156937] built for x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0 & also have
> i686-apple-darwin10.2.0. But I've not uploaded either of these anywhere
> as yet ..
 >
> At the same place, under GNAT_GCC Mac OS X > 4.4.2, you'll find a
> collection of .dmg's posted by Martin Krischik. I've not used these.

I already tried that one (gnat-gcc-4.4.2.dmg), but it did not work; 
trying to compile something with gnatmake gave an error message saying 
an Ada compiler is not installed. From my googling it seems that others 
have encountered the same error. My guess is that gnatmake is using the 
wrong gcc. Perhaps this could be a simple problem to solve, or just an 
installation problem (I accepted the default location /opt/local), but 
how to do it is not evident to me.

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Niklas Holsti
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