Re: ANN: GCC 4.9.0 for Mac OS X Mavericks

[Blady <p.p11@orange.fr>]

Hello,

I did nearly same on native MacOS target with XCode and GNAT GPL.
See post messages on GNAT for Mac OS X User List 
(http://hermes.gwu.edu/archives/gnat-osx.html):

- first progress status: 
https://hermes.gwu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1303&L=gnat-osx&F=&S=&P=68

- small example: 
https://hermes.gwu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1306&L=gnat-osx&F=&S=&P=67

HTH, Pascal.
http://blady.pagesperso-orange.fr

Le 05/05/2014 20:44, Dan'l Miller a écrit :
> On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:00:27 PM UTC-5, Dan'l Miller wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know of analogous work for releasing GCC 4.9.0 & its GNAT for iOS ARM development?
>
> Here is how I understand to develop iOS apps partially in Ada:
> 0) Install Xcode on Mac.
> 1) Install Apple's Command-Line Tools from http://developer.apple.com/downloads
> 2) Install Homebrew
> 3) Install Homebrew's gcc49.rb on Mac.
> 4) Cross-compile nonGUI Ada source code to Cortex-A9 (Apple A5), ARMv7 (Apple A6), ARMv8a (Apple A7).
> 5) Cross-compile glue(-to-Ada) source code and GUI source code in Xcode/LLVM Objective-C or Objective-C++ to same ARM instruction-set.
> 6) Link the Objective-C[++] and Ada object files together to produce executable for iOS.  Should this step use Xcode's LLVM linker or GCC's linker?
> 7) Debug GUI & glue in Xcode's debugger for most recent Objective-C[++] features.  Debug Ada source code in GNAT's debugger for Ada symbol support.
>
> The keyword here truly is homebrew.  Does anyone have any better technique?  Does anyone know of a better-supported Ada development environment for cross-compiling to iOS?
>