Re: AIDE by Stéphane Rivière

["Stéphane Rivière" <sr-remove-@sr-remove-riviere.info>]

> Error is: gnatmake -PC:\aide\aide\examples\gps\tutorial\sdc.gpr
> sdc.adb -d -XBuild=DEBUG
> [2009-09-04 10:42:18] Invalid command

Hi Michael,

I've answered to your email dated 09/03... Here's a copy at the end of
this message.

 Of course, Aide is free and support too, you have not to pay to get
support.

Reading your last messages, Aide could be installed in c:\aide\aide,
instead of c:\aide. Correct to c:\aide and that's all.

You'll find below the first level directory tree as an example.

C:\AIDE
+---bin
+---bina
+---binw
+---dlls
+---doc
+---etc
+---examples
+---home
+---info
+---lib
+---lock
+---share
+---tmp


Notices : 

GPS was included as reference, but it was, at least at this time -many
years ago- buggy. I suggest you should use the customised Emacs
included (emacs is far superior in all cases, to my taste). An other
alternative is a simple but efficient editor : fte.

Aide is a multiuser UNIX like environment in windows (with true shell,
home, etc, lib, directories), able to make true Windows programs (no
cygwin). It is suitable for training, text, web and gtk development in
32 bits and Ada 95 dialect only, as Aide was created between 2001-2004.




**** 09/03 answer

Michael Ayres a �crit :

Hi Michael,

> I have downloaded your system for ADA, but can't get a build to work,
getting this error,
>
> gnatmake -PC:\ADA\aide\doc\gps\examples\tutorial\sdc.gpr sdc.adb -d
-XBuild=DEBUG
> [2009-09-02 20:41:11] Invalid command
>
> Looks like the gnatmake.exe is not in Windows path. Do you know
anyone you can send me to to help me configure properly.

It's just lack of english documentation, as the full manual is only in
french. Some people help me to translate it, but it's far from complete.

To get a zeroconfig and full working AIDE, you must leave it in c:\aide.

You can modify aide.cmd in line 37 (set ADA_ROOT=c:\aide) to modify the
root path, but I strongly recommend you leave c:\aide as root untill
you are confident with AIDE.

All could be customized in AIDE, but leaving this way, all is also
working from scratch, including printing, auto documentation, making
GTK programs and more.

While AIDE is now an old project, with only ADA 95 compiler, it is
allways used for basic and medium Ada training, as it is ready to work
after a simple copying from an USB key to c:\aide (if aide.cmd is not
modified). Proceeding that way, you can setup a serious Ada trainig
room in five minutes :)

It's also the last Ada zeroconfig integrated environment able to
produce commercial or totally free (NON GPL or BSD licence) programs.

Hope this helps, staying at your side, all the best from france.




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