Re: Free Ada83 compiler for older Solaris/SPARC or IRIX?

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Erik Baigar writes:
> Hi,
>
> does anyone out there know/have an older Ada83 compiler which runs
> on SPARC/Solaris (e.g. 2.6) or SGI/IRIX(6.5) which he is
> able/willing to share?
>
> I have a piece of Ada code I want to make run on these toys. Of
> course I know of gnat, but dislike the task of compiling gcc with
> gnat/ada-support on these platforms. Would be great if the compiler
> does support some form of plot/draw command for graphics output
> (AdaEd which I succesfully compiled for IRIX does unfortunately
> not).

Look at Blatstwave and, failing that, GNAT 3.15p on
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Installing

As for the graphics output, I'm afraid you'll have to roll your own as
I don't know of such a thing in Ada 83.

One alternative would be to consider replacing IRIX and Solaris with
Debian GNU/Linux on both your boxes.  You will get not only GNAT but
also GtkAda, all prebuilt and ready to go.  Then you'd have to convert
your old program to Ada 95 but that's probably not going to be very
difficult.

HTH

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.