Re: Problems setting up a (free) Ada development environment

["Paul" <pcas1986@bigpond.net.au>]

Do you have the 2008 GPL version working from a command line (i.e. Windows 
command prompt)?   Open a command line window and just enter gnat.   It 
should output its version, copyright message and command line options.  You 
need to get the environment variables etc set up correctly before using any 
of the GPL IDEs.

Maybe I'm a masochist but if you want to learn Ada then using a simple text 
editor and compiling and linking from the command line is not a bad way to 
get moving.  Learning an IDE as well can be an added complexity.

Paul


"Peter Hermann" <spam@spam.de> wrote in message 
news:goj409$5l1$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de...
> Tim Rowe <spamtrap@tgrowe.plus.net> wrote:
>> I'm trying to set up Ada on my Windows XP Pro system so I can learn Ada.
>
> should be perfect under WinXP :
>
> first install an up-to-date gnat compiler
> (by means of executing e.g.
> gnat-gpl-2008-pentium-mingw32msv-bin.exe
> or similar )
>
>>   I've got the free version of GNAT, and would now like a development
>> environment.
>
> this should run, too.
>
>
>> I've tried AdaGIDE, but when I run it all that happens is a shell
>> console appears and disappears too fast for me to read what's in it.
>
> this seems to indicate a wrong installation.
>
> Better install by means of executing adagide_7.43_setup.exe
>
>> Running from a shell just gives the same result.
>
> not needed: the usual mouse click on the icon is enough.
>
>
>> point me to one that's easier to set up and use?
>
> AdaGIDE runs extremely comfortable:
> As an advanced user of AdaGIDE I need a minimum of entries:
> mouse for activating the AdaGIDE-window.
> [keyboard enter] for reloading source being updated by my pet text-editor
> [keyboard f3]  compile and build
> [keyboard f4]  execute
>