RE: Newbie: Best Ada Compiler for MS Windows ?

From: "Beard, Frank [Contractor]" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil>
Subject: RE: Newbie: Best Ada Compiler for MS Windows ?
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:30:18 -0500
Date: 2002-04-05T11:30:18-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1018024323.25829.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)

Larry's right, this is fairly stiff requirment for a free tool, especially
since none of Micro$oft's development tools are free.

The closest thing to Delphi on Windows, that I know of, is Aonix ObjectAda.
They have a free version, but it has imposed limits.  The full up tool comes
in about four different bundles.  The Professional runs about $500, but you
can get yhe basic IDE/GUI Builder for less than half if I remember
correctly.

Since Delphi is probably the premier GUI RAD development tool fot Windows,
you'll be a little disappointed with the Aonix tool.  Nothing else quite
compares to Delphi for GUI development.  But, you can get the job done with
Aonix, just will a little more work.

On our project, we use Delphi for the GUI interface and Ada for the real
work underneath.  We do use the Aonix GUI tool for writing utilities for
working with the Ada code.  It works pretty well.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: D De Villiers
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Sent: 4/4/02 7:10 AM
Subject: Newbie: Best Ada Compiler for MS Windows ?

Hello!

I'm a Ada newbie ! :)

What's the best FREE Ada compiler avialable for MS Windows ? It must
have a
powerful IDE (with code insight, RAD dev. etc), detail on-line
help/documentation, samples etc.

I will use Ada mostly as a hobby and for writting Win32 console
application... As I already use Delphi for professional work.

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