From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,51563b650b28885 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Matthew Heaney Subject: Re: Porting Ada 83 on AIX to Ada 95 on NT Date: 1999/01/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 430043047 Sender: matt@mheaney.ni.net References: NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 18:39:38 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. 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. ]