Re: Gnat ADA binaries for SGI/Irix

[MJ Croft-White <mjcw100@york.ac.uk>]

Many thanks evreyone, although my university seem to have got the idea
that there sgi license is special - they won't even give out the simplist
things that I know they have a site license for! I don't think they know
what an sgi is let alone what they can and can't do with there software.
Anyway I only need a basic ada compiler as I have a course on it next
year. Usually I use Java or C, although hopefully once I have some kind of
binary I should be able to compile a newer version.

Again many thanks

Michael Croft-White

 > MJ Croft-White
schrieb: >> 
>> As is annoyingly chicken and egg like, I need an Ada compiler for my
>> indigo2 machine - namely GNAT (cos it's free!), but I need an ada compiler
>> to compile the source, and hence I need a binary to get the ada compiler
>> in the first place! Hence the endless loop begins. Therefore does anyone
>> know where I can find a reasonably up to date binary for my SGI , I have
>> already tried the ftp sites and various searches have led to nothing for
>> the MIPS/SGI/Irix. If there isn't one I will have to use the communal
>> computer facilities in my department - uck!
>> 
>> Many thanks
>> 
>> Michael Croft-White

> If you want to have the public version, please use
>  
> ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/private/old

> there are the binaries

>  
> gnat-3.11p-mips-sgi-irix5.3-bin.tar.gz

> It seems that there are no newer public version exist.

> But SGI distributes a version that seems not to be public,
> the current version is SGI-Ada 1.4.1, which seems to be 
> something like gnat3.12. We have some university-license, 
> which includes Ada. (I guess that Ada is generally included 
> in university-licenses, but the people from SGI usually do 
> not install it because it is not used very often.)

> There is also some other problem, the 64bit support in the 
> newer SGI-Ada versions seems to be disappeared. I recently 
> asked a question in gnatlist, but no response yet.

> I would suggest to contact your seller, there is a separate 
> CD in the software, which includes the SGI-Ada compiler, 
> only if this fails, I would use the somewhat outdated version 
> 3.11p from the site above.

> Good luck !
> -Gerald