Re: Does GNAT GPL 2010 have C++?

[Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>]

On Sep 16, 6:55 am, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> * Jerry:
>
> > Well, that's not good news. It's preventing me from building PLplot on
> > OS X 10.5.
>
> I think MacOS comes with a system C++ compiler (unlike Windows), so
> this shouldn't be an issue.

Sorry, I wasn't clear in my original statement. What I meant to say
was that it's preventing me from building PLplot with a 64-bit
compiler on OS X 10.5 Leopard.

I was surprised to discover that the Apple-supplied gcc on 10.5
Leopard is 32-bit: otherwise, I could have compiled the Ada parts on
Adacore's GPL and the C++ parts with Apple's gcc.

The reasons for wanting to use Adacore's 2010 GPL are (to a lesser
extent) that it finally fixes the linking to BLAS and LAPACK and fixes
the problem with the non-blocking Get_Immediate, and (to a greater
extent) I want to evaluate GPS, and the installation of the whole
thing is really easy. I don't know whether I can replace only the
compiler in all of that (the Adacore package) and expect the tools
such as GPS to still work. Another important reason is that, as the
"Ada guy" on the PLplot dev team, I wanted to make some effort to see
that a 64-bit installation on Leopard is possible.

I suppose that even with the deficiency in the Adacore compiler, I
could achieve a 64-bit build on  10.6 Snow Leopard but I have lagged
behind in moving to that OS because of hassles in getting the Xcode
IDE to work with Ada.

Jerry