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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.13.247.3 with SMTP id h3mr859035ywf.140.1499935181579; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 01:39:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.124.10 with SMTP id a10mr1036806itd.6.1499935181537; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 01:39:41 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feed.usenet.farm!feeder4.usenet.farm!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer03.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer02.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!m54no310790qtb.1!news-out.google.com!196ni2969itl.0!nntp.google.com!188no543130itx.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 01:39:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.218.37.33; posting-account=W2gdXQoAAADxIuhBWhPFjUps3wUp4RhQ NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.218.37.33 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Difference between gprbuild and gnatmake From: Stephen Leake Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 08:39:41 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Received-Body-CRC: 4110082970 X-Received-Bytes: 2056 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47397 Date: 2017-07-13T01:39:41-07:00 List-Id: 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.