Gnat ADA binaries for SGI/Irix

Gnat ADA binaries for SGI/Irix

[MJ Croft-White]

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

Re: Gnat ADA binaries for SGI/Irix

[Florian Weimer]

MJ Croft-White <mjcw100@york.ac.uk> writes:

> 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!

Which IRIX versions run on your Indigo2?  Recent ones come along with
a GNAT binary.

Re: Gnat ADA binaries for SGI/Irix

[Tarjei T. Jensen]

Florian Weimer wrote in message <87snni1bob.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>...
>MJ Croft-White <mjcw100@york.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> 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!
>
>Which IRIX versions run on your Indigo2?  Recent ones come along with
>a GNAT binary.

You need to elaborate on that. Where exactly is gnat located? I have checked
our Irix 6.5.9 files and none seem to contain gnat. I suspect you may be part
of a developer program and receive various tools automatically.


Greetings,

Re: Gnat ADA binaries for SGI/Irix

[Gerald Kasner]

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

Re: Gnat ADA binaries for SGI/Irix

[Florian Weimer]

"Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> writes:

> You need to elaborate on that. Where exactly is gnat located?

Sorry, I've only installed IRIX from our software distribution server
at the university, and there was a GNAT distribution on it. ;-)

Re: Gnat ADA binaries for SGI/Irix

[Robert Dewar]

In article <87snni1bob.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>,
  Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> Which IRIX versions run on your Indigo2?  Recent ones come
> along with a GNAT binary.

No, that's wrong, it is a product in the price list, you have
to buy it to get the SGI version of GNAT (it comes as part of
some developer programs, including the academic program)


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Re: Gnat ADA binaries for SGI/Irix

[MJ Croft-White]

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