Re: GNAT for a PPC Mac OS X machine

[Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 17/04/2011 15:43, in article m2vcydos58.fsf@pushface.org, "Simon Wright"
<simon@pushface.org> wrote:

> Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> I've an enthusiastic would-be user of my KDF9 emulator who has a G5 Mac.
>> 
>> What is the most up-to-date compiler he can use, and where can he get it?
>> 
>> (It needs to be a binary - he would not be up to rolling his own, and
>> neither am I 8-).
> 
> There's GNAT GPL 2009 at
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/files/GNAT_GPL%20Mac%20OS%20X/2009-tig
> er-ppc/
> - do you think that would do?
> 
> The release notes start
> ========================================================================
> This is GNAT GPL 2009, built on Mac OS X Tiger for PowerPC,
> to install at /usr/local:
> 
> $ cd /usr/local
> $ sudo tar xzf gnat-gpl-2009-43-powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0-bin.tgz
> 
> It includes gmp-4.3.1 and mpfr-2.4.1.
> 
> Standard tools as well as ASIS tools can be found in /usr/local/gnat-2009/bin:
> gnat, gnatbind, gnatcheck, gnatchop, gnatclean, gnatelim, gnatfind,
> gnathtml.pl,
> gnatkr, gnatlink, gnatls, gnatmake, gnatmetric, gnatname, gnatpp, gnatprep,
> gnatstub, gnatsync, gnatxref.
> ========================================================================
> so he'd need to add /usr/local/gnat-2009/bin to the front of his path.

That looks great - thanks, Simon.

He had some problems compiling & I guess it is because the PPC compiler at
the MacAda site is too old for the language features I use. A 2009 version
should be just the thing.

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