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From: Sebastian Hanigk <hanigk@in.tum.de>
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Subject: Re: How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada?
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:41:18 +0200
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Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com> writes:

>> Personal gripe: access to a free working Ada compiler is difficult
>> on non-Linux systems (OS X and Solaris/AMD64).
>
> For Mac OS X, see
> http://gnuada.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Install/MacOS as a starting
> point (if you want PowerPC GNAT-GPL-2007, see
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12974&package_id=258771).

I'll try that, thanks. The currently installed Ada compiler is "GNATLS
4.2.3 20071217 (prerelease)" from ... well, I don't know.

> For Solaris x86, try
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12974&package_id=260618

Downloading at the moment, will test later.


Best regards,

Sebastian