gnat ada95 compiler..help

gnat ada95 compiler..help

[bill]

hi, 
I am a relatively new ADA student as I am in my second semster of ADA 
instruction however I have only used a commercial VMS based compiler to date 
and I am having some trouble with basic usage of the gnat compiler I 
downloaded tonight.  I can't seem to compile anything..so I must be doing 
something incredibly stupid.. so if anyone can tell me either a. where a good 
reference for gnat syntax is or b. what to type just to compile, link, and 
execute a program like the basic "hello world" i would be very appreciative.

Thank you in advance
Bill Rawlinson

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Re: gnat ada95 compiler..help

[Robert Dewar]

Someone asked

<<I am a relatively new ADA student as I am in my second semster of ADA
instruction however I have only used a commercial VMS based compiler to date
and I am having some trouble with basic usage of the gnat compiler I
downloaded tonight.  I can't seem to compile anything..so I must be doing
something incredibly stupid.. so if anyone can tell me either a. where a good
reference for gnat syntax is or b. what to type just to compile, link, and
execute a program like the basic "hello world" i would be very appreciative.>>

did you read the manual. The first chapter of the users guide is a pretty
elementary level introduction to exactly these topics ...

Re: gnat ada95 compiler..help

[Corbin Dunn]

bill, 
are you using windows95 or 3.x?
I had to add this path in my autoexec to get gnat to compile anything:

rem gnat junk that i had to add
echo off
set PATH=C:\ADAGNAT\bin;%path%
SET PATH=C:\ADAGNAT\GW-GNAT;%PATH%;
set TMPDIR=C:\ADAGNAT\tmp
set GO32TMP=C:\ADAGNAT\tmp
set GO32=topline C:\ADAGNAT\drivers\vga.grd gw 640 gh 480
set DJGPP=C:\ADAGNAT\djgpp.env
set ADA_INCLUDE_PATH=C:\ADAGNAT\adainc
set ADA_OBJECTS_PATH=C:\ADAGNAT\lib\adalib
set GW-GNAT=C:\ADAGNAT\gw-gnat
rem end gnat junk

to syntax check:
gnat1 -gnatl yourfile.adb

you must use the extention .adb

to compile:
gcc -c yourfile.adb

to link:
gnatbl yourfile.ali

to run your program type (at the prompt):
yourfile

GOOD LUCK!






On Tue, 25 Feb 97 06:11:34 GMT, rawlins2@marshall.edu (bill) wrote:

>hi, 
>I am a relatively new ADA student as I am in my second semster of ADA 
>instruction however I have only used a commercial VMS based compiler to date 
>and I am having some trouble with basic usage of the gnat compiler I 
>downloaded tonight.  I can't seem to compile anything..so I must be doing 
>something incredibly stupid.. so if anyone can tell me either a. where a good 
>reference for gnat syntax is or b. what to type just to compile, link, and 
>execute a program like the basic "hello world" i would be very appreciative.
>
>Thank you in advance
>Bill Rawlinson
>
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