GNAT for Ada_OS

GNAT for Ada_OS

[M. A. Alves]

Looking for GNORT, I found ACT's GNAT Pro Bare Board.  Enquirying about
this, I was told to "use the GNAT public version on Windows and
use the No_Run_Time pragma".

(I remind what was "needed" was an Ada compiler emiting bootable code
independent from any preexisting OS running. To make the Ada Loader / OS.)

If that really works, we're in business ;-)

But must it be the _Windows_ GNAT? Strange.

                                     *

Hope everybody out there is reasonably safe from the forces of darkness.

-- 
   ,
 M A R I O   data miner, LIACC, room 221   tel 351+226078830, ext 121
 A M A D O   Rua Campo Alegre, 823         fax 351+226003654
 A L V E S   P-4150 PORTO, Portugal        mob 351+939354002

Re: GNAT for Ada_OS

[Marin David Condic]

Just to answer one of my own questions.....

http://www.geocities.com/mvea/bootstrap.htm

MDC
--
Marin David Condic
Senior Software Engineer
Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
e-Mail:    marin.condic@pacemicro.com
Web:      http://www.mcondic.com/


"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in
message news:9nnt2q$bh$1@nh.pace.co.uk...
> Don't know that it needs to be the "Windows" GNAT, but if you're targeting
a
> PC platform as the initial hardware, that's a pretty natural choice.
>
> One thing to do would be to collect URLs for all the relevant resources so
> that anyone who wants to be a "player" can get the tools loaded onto their
> machine. (Don't know what advice to give to those who want to be "player
> haters" :-)Maybe you could post here whatever you've got so far?
>
> The trick would be to build some kind of initial little test program that
> did just enough to convince onesself that it was in memory and cycling &
> establish all of the procedures and "tricks" necessary to get that program
> compiled & onto a floppy such that the hardware would boot it. Typically,
> those are the mystifying parts. After that, its just writing more and more
> code until you have an OS. Not much of a problem with that, eh? :-)
>
> MDC
> --
> Marin David Condic
> Senior Software Engineer
> Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
> Enabling the digital revolution
> e-Mail:    marin.condic@pacemicro.com
> Web:      http://www.mcondic.com/
>
>
> "M. A. Alves" <maa@liacc.up.pt> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1000305672.12181.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> > Looking for GNORT, I found ACT's GNAT Pro Bare Board.  Enquirying about
> > this, I was told to "use the GNAT public version on Windows and
> > use the No_Run_Time pragma".
> >
> > (I remind what was "needed" was an Ada compiler emiting bootable code
> > independent from any preexisting OS running. To make the Ada Loader /
OS.)
> >
> > If that really works, we're in business ;-)
> >
> > But must it be the _Windows_ GNAT? Strange.
> >
> >                                      *
> >
> > Hope everybody out there is reasonably safe from the forces of darkness.
> >
> > --
> >    ,
> >  M A R I O   data miner, LIACC, room 221   tel 351+226078830, ext 121
> >  A M A D O   Rua Campo Alegre, 823         fax 351+226003654
> >  A L V E S   P-4150 PORTO, Portugal        mob 351+939354002
> >
> >
> >
>
>