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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9f5b05b9ce8aed62 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: gnat for DOS Date: 1996/04/22 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 150870371 references: <317A8B31.CFD@easystreet.com> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-04-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: iAl asked "There is a note in the gnat archive with the DOS version that says that the gnat make is broken under DOS. Does this mean that gnat is not currently useful to develop programs that will run under DOS, or is there any way around this problem? Are there any ideas about of when the expected remedy to this difficulty will be available?" It is perfectly possible to use GNAT without an automatic make facility, though it is certainly more convenient to have it available. The reason that gnatmake does not work with the current DOS version is that there is not enough low memory space with DJGPP version 1. Ada Core Technologies will shortly be releasing a new DOS version, which will also be available in Mike Feldman 's EZLoad packaging that fixes this problem (by using DJGPP 2), and also fully implements tasking. P.S. Even with the new version, you are well advised to move to a real 32 bit operating system (OS/2, NT. Solaris 86, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Nextstep) to do any serious Ada development on a PC. Of these at least OS/2, Linux and NT support tasking fully.