From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,eb479dcdc3b00557 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-28 09:21:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer1!btnet-peer0!btnet!psiuk-p2!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie: need help setting up Ada 95 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:08:26 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1012237710 17607 136.170.200.133 (28 Jan 2002 17:08:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jan 2002 17:08:30 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19333 Date: 2002-01-28T17:08:30+00:00 List-Id: 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
" 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 -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Paul Verkruissen" 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 > >