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From: Tim Rowe <spamtrap@tgrowe.plus.net>
Subject: Problems setting up a (free) Ada development environment
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:42:52 +0000
Date: 2009-03-02T16:42:52+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <UqmdnTfH-ZoPkTHUnZ2dnUVZ8j-WnZ2d@posted.plusnet> (raw)

I'm trying to set up Ada on my Windows XP Pro system so I can learn Ada. 
  I've got the free version of GNAT, and would now like a development 
environment.

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. 
Running from a shell just gives the same result.

Ok, can't get AdaGIDE to work, so I try the AonixADT addon for Eclipse. 
To get that working I need to set up the "toolchain", but I can't find 
any explanation of what a "toolchain" is. The ADT tutorial says that 
"The Ada toolchain (ObjectAda, GNAT, etc.)  is located at the top level 
of the Ada installation - for example, C:/Program 
Files/Aonix/ObjectAda." So for GNAT, maybe it's at "C:\Program 
Files\gnat", which is where I've installed GNAT. Nope: "The specified 
location does not contain a valid GNAT installation". Maybe "C:\Program 
Files\gnat\2008"? Nope. "C:\Program Files\gnat\2008\bin"? Nope.

Could anybody help me to get either of those environments working, or 
point me to one that's easier to set up and use?

Thanks.



             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-02 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-02 16:42 Tim Rowe [this message]
2009-03-02 17:07 ` Problems setting up a (free) Ada development environment Pascal Obry
2009-03-02 21:19   ` Tim Rowe
2009-03-02 17:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-03-02 17:50 ` Tero Koskinen
2009-03-02 22:22   ` britt.snodgrass
2009-03-02 20:25 ` Ivan Levashew
2009-03-03 11:23 ` Peter Hermann
2009-03-04  8:30   ` Paul
2009-03-04 16:09     ` britt.snodgrass
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