Re: Ada 95 compiler for NetBSD

Re: Ada 95 compiler for NetBSD

[Aaro Koskinen]

"Thomas Mueller" <tmueller@bluegrass.net> writes:
> From what I read regarding GNAT, the source code is written in Ada
> and requires an already-existing GNAT installation. Catch-22? I even
> thought about the possibility of using the GNAT binary for Linux in
> Linux emulation under NetBSD, but how to avoid simply recompiling a
> Linux version? I guess some modifications would have to be made for
> NetBSD in the source, but GNAT was compiled for OS/2 (i386 or i686)
> and OpenVMS (Alpha), which are definitely not Unix.

There used to be a NetBSD port of GNAT some years ago, but I guess it
was dropped due to lack of interest. I remember trying it on my NetBSD
1.3 box...

Actually there seems to be port of GNAT 3.12p for NetBSD 1.4.1:
   http://www.gnuada.org/netbsd.html

The current version of GNAT is 3.13p.

> I was looking at http://www.gnat.com and http://www.adahome.com less
> than 24 hours before Harri J Haataja's posting time, for DOS, Linux
> and BSD versions.

Also check ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/ for official "public"
distributions of GNAT.

A.

-- 
Aaro Koskinen, aaro@iki.fi, http://www.iki.fi/aaro

Re: Ada 95 compiler for NetBSD

[Stephen Leake]

aaro@iki.fi (Aaro Koskinen) writes:

> "Thomas Mueller" <tmueller@bluegrass.net> writes:
> > From what I read regarding GNAT, the source code is written in Ada
> > and requires an already-existing GNAT installation. Catch-22? 

You can build GNAT as a cross compiler, from a system where you have a
working binary, to the target system. Then use the cross-compiler to
compile GNAT; all done.

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-- Stephe