From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1aa4222a49de9a46 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." Subject: Re: Tips for conversion from Apex to GNAT Date: 1999/12/23 Message-ID: <83ue6n$a51$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 564710145 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38609E9C.B75C9962@rdel.co.uk> X-Posted-Path-Was: not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-ELN-Date: 24 Dec 1999 00:19:35 GMT X-ELN-Insert-Date: Thu Dec 23 16:25:09 1999 Organization: Ada95 Press, Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Chris Powell wrote in message news:38609E9C.B75C9962@rdel.co.uk... > Does anyone have any tips for converting Apex based Ada system to build > under GNAT? Some obvious potential pitfalls spring to mind: the > compatibility of libraries (we cross compile to PowerPC, VxWorks), the > file extension mapping from Apex .1.ada/.2.ada to .ads/.adb, > inconsistencies in implementation-defined areas of the compilers... > > Perhaps someone has written a wizzo makefile that can build an > application directly from views in an Apex tower using GNAT? The Rational Compilation Integrator (RCI) system allows you to do that. Your Rational Rep should be able to set one up for you, or you can wade through the documentation, and do it yourself. That's what I did, then when a couple of Ada95 features -- e.g., stream attribute overloading, I got a couple of hours help from Rational. I set up such a system in early 1997, before Rational had a real Ada95 compiler, and we were using gnat-3.09p at the time, using a Solaris sparc-hosted Apex, generating programs for both Solaris and IRIX targets. > We are interested to see if the application builds any quicker: we spend > a lot of time waiting for builds under Apex. > I can't comment on this part of the problem. > Thanks in advance; Chris Powell.