GNAT GPL compile problems

GNAT GPL compile problems

[stuartlclark]

I downloaded the GPL version yesterday. As per version numbers all i
can see is that it is dated 2 August 2005 version, and its called
pentium-mingw32msv-gcc-3.4.5.

As i said i downloaded and installed.

I fired up GPS and created an Ada project. Added some source files and
tried to do a syntax check. it failed. i then tried a compile check, it
failed.

i got the following error message

gnatmake -u -c -u -PC:/Program\ Files/GNAT/bin/my_uatl.gpr
uatl_data_types.ads -d
fatal error, run-time library not installed correctly
cannot locate file system.ads
gnatmake: *** make failed.

process exited with status 4

Does anyone know what this means, what i have done wrong, and how to
fix it.

I have sent an email to gnat-gpl@adacore.com and am waiting for a
reply.

Stuart Clark

Re: GNAT GPL compile problems

[Pascal Obry]

stuartlclark@hotmail.com a �crit :

> Does anyone know what this means, what i have done wrong, and how to
> fix it.

Looks like you have another GCC compiler on your PATH that is picked up
instead of the one that comes with GNAT GPL.

Pascal.

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Re: GNAT GPL compile problems

[stuart clark]

I got a reply from AdaCore.

Basically the installation didnt like that i had installed to
c:\Program Files\GNAT, ie it doesnt like dir names with spaces.

I uninstalled and re-installed to c:\GNAT and bingo all is good.


Pascal Obry wrote:
> stuartlclark@hotmail.com a écrit :
>
> > Does anyone know what this means, what i have done wrong, and how to
> > fix it.
>
> Looks like you have another GCC compiler on your PATH that is picked up
> instead of the one that comes with GNAT GPL.
>
> Pascal.
>
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>
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Re: GNAT GPL compile problems

[Szymon Guz]

stuart clark napisał(a):
> I got a reply from AdaCore.
> 
> Basically the installation didnt like that i had installed to
> c:\Program Files\GNAT, ie it doesnt like dir names with spaces.
> 
> I uninstalled and re-installed to c:\GNAT and bingo all is good.
> 

Great, so if GNAT has problems like this one I don't want to think about 
other that it also can have ;-(

Re: GNAT GPL compile problems

[Jeffrey Creem]

Szymon Guz wrote:
> stuart clark napisaďż˝(a):
> 
>> I got a reply from AdaCore.
>>
>> Basically the installation didnt like that i had installed to
>> c:\Program Files\GNAT, ie it doesnt like dir names with spaces.
>>
>> I uninstalled and re-installed to c:\GNAT and bingo all is good.
>>
> 
> Great, so if GNAT has problems like this one I don't want to think about 
> other that it also can have ;-(
> 
> 

GNAT (like all software) has issues and limitations but it take the 
position that because you can't install it to a directory with a space 
in the name that you must then think it has other serious bugs is not 
really reasonable.

Actually, the install in directory with spaces in the name is pretty 
much a windows convention. Until very recently it was possible to blue 
screen windows by simply doing some console output that included a few 
tabs and backspaces. "If it has problems like that I dont want to think 
about other that it also can have."

Re: GNAT GPL compile problems

[Szymon Guz]

Jeffrey Creem napisał(a):

> Actually, the install in directory with spaces in the name is pretty 
> much a windows convention. Until very recently it was possible to blue 
> screen windows by simply doing some console output that included a few 
> tabs and backspaces. "If it has problems like that I dont want to think 
> about other that it also can have."

Right, I hate using windows but I have some programs that I use in my 
work that must be run under windows so I use it ;-(

Re: GNAT GPL compile problems

[Dmitry A. Kazakov]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:05:53 +0100, Szymon Guz wrote:

> stuart clark napisaďż˝(a):
>> I got a reply from AdaCore.
>> 
>> Basically the installation didnt like that i had installed to
>> c:\Program Files\GNAT, ie it doesnt like dir names with spaces.
>> 
>> I uninstalled and re-installed to c:\GNAT and bingo all is good.
>> 
> 
> Great, so if GNAT has problems like this one I don't want to think about 
> other that it also can have ;-(

That depends on the version number! (:-))

3.15p seemed less buggy than the GPL edition. I'd would wait for a new
public version of it.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Re: GNAT GPL compile problems

[Simon Wright]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> 3.15p seemed less buggy than the GPL edition. I'd would wait for a
> new public version of it.

Don't hold your breath, then. I have the strong impression that
AdaCore don't intend ever to produce another p version!

Re: GNAT GPL compile problems

[Dmitry A. Kazakov]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:08:00 +0000, Simon Wright wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>> 3.15p seemed less buggy than the GPL edition. I'd would wait for a
>> new public version of it.
> 
> Don't hold your breath, then. I have the strong impression that
> AdaCore don't intend ever to produce another p version!

You mean there will be no free Ada compiler anymore? That would be a very
bad news.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Re: GNAT GPL compile problems

[Stephen Leake]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> You mean there will be no free Ada compiler anymore? 

no, the version distributed with gcc is still there. It has the GMGPL
license, rather than the GPL license.

> That would be a very bad news.

Yes.

-- 
-- Stephe

Re: GNAT GPL compile problems

[Marc A. Criley]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>> You mean there will be no free Ada compiler anymore? 
> 
> no, the version distributed with gcc is still there. It has the GMGPL
> license, rather than the GPL license.

GNAT GPL 2005 is also a free Ada compiler, and in correspondence with 
AdaCore they've informed me that it is their intent to continue to 
maintain that version for free software development.  I've found that 
they're accepting and acknowledging bug reports, even though they're 
under no obligation to do so for unsupported users.

-- Marc A. Criley
-- McKae Technologies
-- www.mckae.com
-- DTraq - XPath In Ada - XML EZ Out

Re: GNAT GPL compile problems

[Simon Wright]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> You mean there will be no free Ada compiler anymore? That would be a
> very bad news.

No, just that there is unlikely to be a 5.04p (the current supported
release is 5.04). Instead, you can use GCC which is indeed free
(Martin Krischik is making a number of precompiled binaries available
on SourceForge, but I don't remember where and SF is very very slow at
the moment).

Re: GNAT GPL compile problems

[Martin Krischik]

Simon Wright wrote:

> (Martin Krischik is making a number of precompiled binaries available
> on SourceForge, but I don't remember where and SF is very very slow at
> the moment).

http://gnuada.sf.net/

And it's not me - we are a team! And need a team member per platform so help
is allways welcome!

Martin
-- 
mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net
Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com

Re: GNAT GPL compile problems

[Craig Carey]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:54:56 +0100, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote:
>On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:05:53 +0100, Szymon Guz wrote:

>3.15p seemed less buggy than the GPL edition. I'd would wait for a new
>public version of it.

(Does that mean that GPL 2005 can't build usable executables for
 large-ish Ada programs?).

Each version of MinGW 3.4.x possibly gets worse. Maybe the same happens
for GNAT Ada. Maybe AdaCore ought release a Windows test-suite that the
software passes.

ftp://ftp.dit.upm.es/mirrors/cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.15p/winnt/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
ftp://ftp.dreamer.sytes.net/Programming/Ada%20GNAT/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/sourceforge/g/gn/gnuada/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/mirror/cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.15p/winnt/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
ftp://ftp.laas.fr/pub/tsf/agnan/Installeposte/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/gnat/3.15p/winnt/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://bencer.cauterized.net/win32/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://bigbrother.prevenciokft.hu/~godot/ada/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://comsci.liu.edu/courses/151/cdrom/Software/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://deim.etse.urv.es/~ajuda.deim/programari/2005/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl/~jpi/download/ada/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/languages/ada/gnat/3.15p/winnt/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/apps/GNAT/en/install/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://home.agh.edu.pl/~jpi/download/ada/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://joung.im.ntu.edu.tw/teaching/pl/2003/ada/src/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://limestone.truman.edu/pub/win32/apps/gnat/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/ftp/lenguajes/ada/gnat/3.15p/winnt/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://people.inf.elte.hu/pipi/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnuada/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://rochebruneadsl.free.fr/stephane/gnat/3.15p/winnt/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://stargate.inf.elte.hu/~pepe/ada/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://student.agh.edu.pl/~tnowak/GNAT/Gnat/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://wewillfuckyou.free.fr/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://www.amperjkw.com/~pawel/sem2/ada/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://www.at.php.net/languages/ada/gnat/3.15p/winnt/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://www.calvin.edu/~kvlinden/distributions/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://www.cs.fit.edu/~ryan/cd/files/gnat/3.15p/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/archive.html (offline)
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/courses/teaching/level1/adadownloads/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://www.ji.si.ehu.es/Programazioa-II/instalatzekoak/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://www.lisi.ensma.fr/ftp/enseignement/ada/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
http://www.vpg.sulinet.hu/~sam/ada/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe

(I found those URIs using www.google.com, www.av.com,
 www.filesearching.com, www.profusion.com, www.metacrawler.com, and
 news:comp.lang.ada.)

PS. That Gvd debugger might have to be supplemented with a recompiled
 gdb-5.3 obtained from the secret CVS of libre.act-europe.fr.
WinCVS can show the hidden gdb-5.3 module.

Some readers here were compiling the Gvd part of GPS (but failed).


Craig Carey