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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham 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: 2002-01-29 06:57:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news-x2.support.nl!psinet-eu-nl!news.ebone.net!news1.ebone.net!newspeerenv1.svr.pol.co.uk!213.218.77.62.MISMATCH!newswriterenv1.svr.pol.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Paul Verkruissen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie: need help setting up Ada 95 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:59:48 +0100 Organization: Energis NV's Usenet System Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.21.160.223 X-Trace: newswriterENV1.svr.pol.co.uk 1012316265 2305 62.21.160.223 (29 Jan 2002 14:57:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@energis.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:57:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19355 Date: 2002-01-29T15:59:48+01:00 List-Id: I don't have a \documentation directory, or any HTML files, only TXT hellp files. I think I may have downloaded the wrong version. I have gnat-3.13p-i686-pc-linux-gnu-bin. I will try and download gnat-3.13p-nt.exe and see if I get those files. "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:a340ie$h67$1@nh.pace.co.uk... > Look through your directory tree for a file called gnat_ug.html (or similar > name - it exists as postscript, text, etc.) You'll probably find it under > "C:\gnat\documentation" if you're on Windows. (You didn't say what > platform.) That should walk you through your basic "Hello World" examples > along with explaining most of what you'd need to know to successfully > operate the compiler. > > Gnat is basically command line oriented. (Type "gnatmake
" > at a command prompt.) However, if you are on Windows, you can use AdaGIDE as > an interactive development environment and invoke the compiler with a > mouseclick. You need to download that separately. The Unix users usually use > a version of emacs that is Ada/Gnat aware. If that's important to you, you > can find that as well... > > See: http://www.adapower.com/ for links to all sorts of Ada software, free > books on line, tutorials, etc. Lots of stuff for the beginner available > there. > > MDC > -- > Marin David Condic > Senior Software Engineer > Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com > Enabling the digital revolution > e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com > Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ > > > "Paul Verkruissen" wrote in message > news:a33u92$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 > > > > > >