Re: ADA for OS/2

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <ywLYhRw4zi4W-pn2-DputPNMcYvqY@aigh168by26ya.ab.hsia.telus.net>,
Windows.Only.Vendors@Suck.Com says...

>This is not happening for OS/2 however. There are a number of us 
>interested in getting this going and are willing to try but we need 
>help. If for no other reason than maintaining and extending the scope 
..
>Back to the topic at hand. By help, I am asking for some mentoring for
>us, walk us through the process, do not assume what we know or don't 
>know, in return we will document the method and steps and keep the 
>knowledge available for orthers. As it is now when Robert Dewar and a 

Probably the best thing to do would be to just start slogging through the
process, and then appeal for help at the appropriate places when/if you get
stuck.

If you need help getting started, I'd first download the sources and read
through any instructions there. Then the next best thing to do would probably be
to appeal to the folks on the Gnatlist at
http://lyris.seas.gwu.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=gnatlist&text_mode=0 . There
seem to be several people there who regularly build gnat from sources.

I haven't personally done this before. However, I have compiled gcc from sources
before (many years ago on SunOS). It did take me about 10 hours of work (mostly
due to slow compile times), but it really wasn't too horribly difficult. Don't
let anyone scare you off by throwing that in your face.


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