Re: Current status of Ada development for an Android target ?

[Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>]

On 2016-06-12, Luke A  Guest <laguest@archeia.com> wrote:
> Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> What is the current status of freely available Ada development options
>> for an Android target ? I would really need a GMGPL type licence and
>> not a pure GPL licence for the runtime and the preferred development
>> platform would be Linux.
>
>
> Another thing that needs doing are bindings to the native android API and
> also Ada->Java compiler with bindings generator which aren't distributed
> under the GPL.
>

Thanks Luke.

What's going on here is that I'm working on a personal project which
has a range of libraries and other code associated with it. I can see
myself reusing various parts of it on a range of targets in the future
including Android NDK applications.

For that reason I originally started writing it in pure C, but even
with some libraries I've written (such as a safer string library)
the C code is taking too long to write and there's way too much
boilerplate code and low level handling of things going on.

Given a good range of unknown future targets the next best logical
option for portability is to use C++ but my heart _really_ wants to
use Ada now that I've accepted I need to use a higher level language
for this project.

As such I am having a serious think about the Ada compiler situation
as it relates to the viability of Ada for various targets. BTW, I also
see the DragonEgg project is still dead (the frontend is still stalled
at LLVM 3.3 and gcc 4.6 for Ada; I really wish LLVM had a native Ada
front end so you could use the full range of LLVM targets.)

Simon.

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