Re: ADA compiler for DOS or Windows

[jh@JRHayek.Berlin.snafu.de (Jochen Hayek)]

>>>>> "KM" == Kevin Moore <moore@musc.edu> writes:

    KM> I'm in need of an ADA compiler for DOS or MS Windows.  I have the 
    KM> GWU environment for the MAC and while it works well for basic 
    KM> programming, it doesn't seem to support ADA's advanced features such as
    KM> ADT generic packages.  If anyone is aware of such a compiler/environment
    KM> please e-mail me.  Thank-You in advance.  Kevin.

Well, the New York Ada Ed compiler environment grew up and up and ...
and it was put into the GNU repository.

This stems from /prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/DESCRIPTIONS
(I retrieved it from there just 2 minutes ago):

   * GCC	 (For current status, see ``GNU Software''.)

     New front ends for GCC are being developed, but they are not yet part of
     GCC.  ..., and a front end for Ada (GNAT: The GNU Ada Translator) is
     available via anonymous FTP from `cs.nyu.edu' in `/pub/gnat', though it
     is not yet stable.	 News about GNAT is posted to the USENET newsgroup
     `comp.lang.ada'.  ...

So it`s `here' in this group, where you can get uptodate information.

I must admit I did not use it myself yet,
because of few Ada programming the last days.
But concerning `not yet stable' I would not be that sure.

It runs on several architectures.

For MS-DOSE GNAT uses a DOS extender (for having 32bit addresses)
called DJGPP, which in turn is quite stable and being used by C programmers
for quite a while.

But DJGPP does not yet support MS-Windose,
although it seems starting to support its addressing scheme,
so just in a while ...

(Yes, I will also e-mail this directly to Kevin Moore, as he asked for.)

(Try to assume that some spelling mistakes were by purpose!)

jh
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