From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: Difference between gprbuild and gnatmake
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 01:39:41 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2017-07-13T01:39:41-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c8b063c3-5258-4acb-aca2-be812fbfddff@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lyy3rsrhyu.fsf@pushface.org>
On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 1:03:52 AM UTC-5, Simon Wright wrote:
> Victor Porton writes:
>
> > From another thread:
> >
> >> You should probably be using gprbuild, not gnatmake.
> >
> > What is the difference? Is gprbuild a newer version of gnatmake? What are
> > their differences?
>
> gnatmake is part of the compiler suite (it's used in the compiler
> build). gprbuild is not part of the compiler; it used only to be
> generally available in source form as part of GNAT GPL releases, but
> nowadays it's on github[1].
This is misleading. gprbuild is in the GNAT GPL and supported releases; since 2014 it's bundled with the compiler.
One feature of gprbuild is that it is multi-language; by default it knows how to build C, C++, and Ada programs, and you can teach it about compilers for other languages.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-13 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-12 18:50 Difference between gprbuild and gnatmake Victor Porton
2017-07-13 6:03 ` Simon Wright
2017-07-13 8:39 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2017-07-13 14:12 ` Simon Wright
2017-07-13 15:01 ` Victor Porton
2017-07-13 16:17 ` Simon Wright
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