From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ca60939b0fee11b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: gmckee@cloudnine.com (Gary McKee) Subject: Re: Ada95 compilers for the Macintosh Date: 1996/04/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 147198326 references: <4uspee21xt.fsf@furrow.frc.ri.cmu.edu> <316CBFEF.7D35@lfwc.lockheed.com> organization: McKee Consulting (Consulting in Ada) newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , xanthian@qualcomm.com (Kent Paul Dolan) wrote: > Are these self standing with their own Mac runtime libraries, or will this > still require that a C compiler for the Mac be purchased before any > interesting work can be done? > > [And granted the Mac OS is the pits (no flames please, I'm typing at one, > it crashes multiple times a day running standard commercial software), how > small a population of users are you expecting to select for MacGNAT by > requiring also that a piggyback OS be in place? I know I wouldn't > personally consider it worth the trouble, compared to a GNAT or other > Ada95 compiler running directly under the MacOS and including needed > runtime libraries to program to the Mac user interface, which I would > instantly download/purchase and use (even if the Mac OS _is_ dreck), just > to get some productive use out of this boat-anchor and the space it is > consuming on my desk at work.] -------------------------------------------------------- Our Ada95 compilers on the Mac will require the Tenon Intersystems' MachTen UNIX.The required configuration is: PPC - System 7.5.1, Machten 4.02, memory, disk, etc. 68k - System 7.5.1, Machten 2.3, memory, disk, etc. If you have the MachTen, then all of our stuff can be downloaded from the NET. Later this fall, Tenon will be marketing a SW development CD-ROM with their UNIX and our Ada compilers on it. We are doing the best we can with the resources available. We would be delighted to have an opportunity to deliver a native Mac compiler, all we need is funding ! Our compiler is built on GNAT so we won't make much money selling compilers ;-). We are involved in this process because we, as a team, find value in having a validated Ada95 compiler available on the machines that we prefer to use. Our PPC compiler will incude a library of Ada packages that provide interfaces to the Mac API so that we can generate native Mac applications even if the compiler requires the MachTen. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary McKee McKee Consulting gmckee@cloudnine.com P. O. Box 3009 voice: (303) 795-7287 Littleton, CO 80161-3009 WWW home page => --------------------------------------------------------------------