From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Porting Ada 83 on AIX to Ada 95 on NT
Date: 1999/01/08
Date: 1999-01-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3emp6wkoj.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: yoxr9t7xp6w.fsf@dymock.dra.hmg.gb
rh@signal.dera.gov.uk (Roger Hoyle) writes:
If you want a zero-cost compiler for NT, then you can use GNAT. You can
also try the zero-cost student (?) edition compiler from Aonix.
<http://www.gnat.com/>
<http://www.aonix.com/>
GNAT v3.11p is almost ready. As a matter of fact, it's being held up
specifically to get the NT port perfect.
> I'm a newbie Ada programmer with a reasonable background in other
> languages.
>
> I'm currently trying to get at some [complicated] functionality currently
> in Ada 83 on AIX and can see two routes forward at the moment...
>
> i) Compile it on AIX using the original compiler and call it [somehow :]
> across a network when required.
>
> ii) Compile it on NT using a 83/95 (?) compiler and call it locally when
> required.
>
> The application uses the Posix_Io package and I haven't tracked down a
> validated version on NT.
>
> Could anyone advise me if I'm being silly or whether I actually have a
> reasonable chance of compiling it under NT, and which compilers would be
> worth giving a try?
>
> Any help gratefully received,
>
> cheers
>
> rog.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Roger Hoyle rh@signal.dera.gov.uk
> [ The views expressed above belong to me, and not my employer. ]
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