Re: ANN: STM32F4 GNAT Run Time Systems 20141207

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com" <RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com> writes:

> with this work - you are able to develop with gnat targeting the STM32
> discovery board. so theoretically other ARM targets should also be
> possible.

> Does this include debugging that talks to the ST-Link on the board?

Yes. See AdaCore's instructions[1].

> i am just getting myself setup for some development targeting another
> Cortex M4. Currently my plan is to use Ubuntu 12.04 as my
> platform. If I run into difficulties, my plan is to (reluctantly)
> setup my MAC for Windows dual boot. In any case, my intention is to
> use the distribution from adacore.

I'm working on a GCC 4.9.1 version.

> I am excited that I will be able to do most of this directly from
> MAC. Unfortunately I am not too comfortable with building/configuring
> of gcc and so on.
>
> If you could provide some detailed guidance as to how I could setup my
> development environment, I would start on it as soon as the discovery
> board arrives - any time now! Perhaps they are available on the
> sf.net site - which i will checkout.

See INSTALL in the distribution. Tell me how you think it could be
improved!

[1] http://libre.adacore.com/tools/gnat-gpl-for-bare-board-arm/