Re: Porting GNAT

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

andyal says

<<I am interested in porting GNAT to a new operating system, namely the
BeOs running on PowerMac/PowerPC hardware.  GCC is available for
this platform.  Can someone provide me with explicit instructions on how
to perform the port?>>

You need to do a cross GNAT port from a system that already has a port
of GNAT running (since GNAT is written in Ada 95). If this is something
you know how to do, then you can probably succeed. If this sentence
makes little sense to you, then you probably need to do a lot more learning
about GCC and GNAT before you can succeed. Many people have succeeded in
making new ports of GNAT, but almost without exception they have been people
who know GCC and its makefiles pretty well. 

Making a new port is not something that is likely to be able to be cookbooked
by someone who does not know what they are doing.