Re: Newbie: need help setting up Ada 95

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Look through your directory tree for a file called gnat_ug.html (or similar
name - it exists as postscript, text, etc.) You'll probably find it under
"C:\gnat\documentation" if you're on Windows. (You didn't say what
platform.) That should walk you through your basic "Hello World" examples
along with explaining most of what you'd need to know to successfully
operate the compiler.

Gnat is basically command line oriented. (Type "gnatmake <main prog name>"
at a command prompt.) However, if you are on Windows, you can use AdaGIDE as
an interactive development environment and invoke the compiler with a
mouseclick. You need to download that separately. The Unix users usually use
a version of emacs that is Ada/Gnat aware. If that's important to you, you
can find that as well...

See: http://www.adapower.com/ for links to all sorts of Ada software, free
books on line, tutorials, etc. Lots of stuff for the beginner available
there.

MDC
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"Paul Verkruissen" <paulverkruissen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:a33u92$lgd$1@newswriterENV1.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Hello
>
> I am new to Ada, but need to learn it quickly. I have found an Ada site
and
> downloaded Ada 96 GNAT-3.13p-i686. I expanded the ZIP file and it copied
> itself into a directory structure, however I do not now how to activate
the
> compiler and linker.
>
> Is there further steps required, or is it all command/script based? I have
> read the README file which says to run DOCONFIG, but that file is just
> another text file, so how do I run that?
>
> Any help would be appeciated
>
> Paul
>
>