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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:20:55 +0100
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Subject: Re: FSF GNAT on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, does it exist?
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Martin schrieb:

>>> 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.
>>
>> HTH
> 
> Thanks Simon - for the first time since Snow Leopard, I have a working
> Ada compiler!! :-)
> 
> I'm using the "Lightweight IDE" - sorry Emacs was just as much a 'way-
> of-life' tool as I remember...and I didn't enjoy the experience the
> first time round.
> 
> Hopefully, AdaCore will be releasing a GNAT GPL 2010 for Snow Leopard
> in a few months and I can get back to GPS.

There are some more setups on Mac OS X that sort of work, maybe even
on SL. They are strange, but still worth mentioning, I think.

One is using Wine/CrossOver to run the Windows GNAT GPL programs.
Even GPS works reasonably well. (AdaGIDE seems to use some Win32
calls that are not that well supported by the wine libraries.)

The other approach uses a virtual machine like VMWare Fusion together
with Mac OS X's X11 server.  For example, run a small, text only,
GNU/Linux machine.  All graphical needs are being served on the Mac
side.

Incidentally, the Wine approach "ports" nice helper programs
like Pragsoft's UMLStudio to Mac OS X.