Newbie: need help setting up Ada 95

Newbie: need help setting up Ada 95

[Paul Verkruissen]

Hello

I am new to Ada, but need to learn it quickly. I have found an Ada site and
downloaded Ada 96 GNAT-3.13p-i686. I expanded the ZIP file and it copied
itself into a directory structure, however I do not now how to activate the
compiler and linker.

Is there further steps required, or is it all command/script based? I have
read the README file which says to run DOCONFIG, but that file is just
another text file, so how do I run that?

Any help would be appeciated

Paul

Re: Newbie: need help setting up Ada 95

[Marin David Condic]

Look through your directory tree for a file called gnat_ug.html (or similar
name - it exists as postscript, text, etc.) You'll probably find it under
"C:\gnat\documentation" if you're on Windows. (You didn't say what
platform.) That should walk you through your basic "Hello World" examples
along with explaining most of what you'd need to know to successfully
operate the compiler.

Gnat is basically command line oriented. (Type "gnatmake <main prog name>"
at a command prompt.) However, if you are on Windows, you can use AdaGIDE as
an interactive development environment and invoke the compiler with a
mouseclick. You need to download that separately. The Unix users usually use
a version of emacs that is Ada/Gnat aware. If that's important to you, you
can find that as well...

See: http://www.adapower.com/ for links to all sorts of Ada software, free
books on line, tutorials, etc. Lots of stuff for the beginner available
there.

MDC
--
Marin David Condic
Senior Software Engineer
Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
e-Mail:    marin.condic@pacemicro.com
Web:      http://www.mcondic.com/


"Paul Verkruissen" <paulverkruissen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:a33u92$lgd$1@newswriterENV1.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Hello
>
> I am new to Ada, but need to learn it quickly. I have found an Ada site
and
> downloaded Ada 96 GNAT-3.13p-i686. I expanded the ZIP file and it copied
> itself into a directory structure, however I do not now how to activate
the
> compiler and linker.
>
> Is there further steps required, or is it all command/script based? I have
> read the README file which says to run DOCONFIG, but that file is just
> another text file, so how do I run that?
>
> Any help would be appeciated
>
> Paul
>
>

Re: Newbie: need help setting up Ada 95

[Preben Randhol]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:31:31 +0100, Paul Verkruissen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am new to Ada, but need to learn it quickly. I have found an Ada site and
> downloaded Ada 96 GNAT-3.13p-i686. I expanded the ZIP file and it copied
> itself into a directory structure, however I do not now how to activate the
> compiler and linker.

I guess you are using Windows? 

Get this files:

   ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.13p/winnt/gnat-3.13p-nt.exe
   ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.13p/winnt/adagide-6.26.exe

and install them and then reboot.

Preben
-- 
Preben Randhol         �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�

Re: Newbie: need help setting up Ada 95

[Paul Verkruissen]

I don't have a \documentation directory, or any HTML files, only TXT hellp
files. I think I may have downloaded the wrong version. I have
gnat-3.13p-i686-pc-linux-gnu-bin. I will try and download gnat-3.13p-nt.exe
and see if I get those files.

"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in
message news:a340ie$h67$1@nh.pace.co.uk...
> Look through your directory tree for a file called gnat_ug.html (or
similar
> name - it exists as postscript, text, etc.) You'll probably find it under
> "C:\gnat\documentation" if you're on Windows. (You didn't say what
> platform.) That should walk you through your basic "Hello World" examples
> along with explaining most of what you'd need to know to successfully
> operate the compiler.
>
> Gnat is basically command line oriented. (Type "gnatmake <main prog name>"
> at a command prompt.) However, if you are on Windows, you can use AdaGIDE
as
> an interactive development environment and invoke the compiler with a
> mouseclick. You need to download that separately. The Unix users usually
use
> a version of emacs that is Ada/Gnat aware. If that's important to you, you
> can find that as well...
>
> See: http://www.adapower.com/ for links to all sorts of Ada software, free
> books on line, tutorials, etc. Lots of stuff for the beginner available
> there.
>
> MDC
> --
> Marin David Condic
> Senior Software Engineer
> Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
> Enabling the digital revolution
> e-Mail:    marin.condic@pacemicro.com
> Web:      http://www.mcondic.com/
>
>
> "Paul Verkruissen" <paulverkruissen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:a33u92$lgd$1@newswriterENV1.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > Hello
> >
> > I am new to Ada, but need to learn it quickly. I have found an Ada site
> and
> > downloaded Ada 96 GNAT-3.13p-i686. I expanded the ZIP file and it copied
> > itself into a directory structure, however I do not now how to activate
> the
> > compiler and linker.
> >
> > Is there further steps required, or is it all command/script based? I
have
> > read the README file which says to run DOCONFIG, but that file is just
> > another text file, so how do I run that?
> >
> > Any help would be appeciated
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
>
>

Re: Newbie: need help setting up Ada 95

[Ted Dennison]

"Paul Verkruissen" <paulverkruissen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<a36d95$281$1@newswriterENV1.svr.pol.co.uk>...
> I don't have a \documentation directory, or any HTML files, only TXT hellp
> files. I think I may have downloaded the wrong version. I have
> gnat-3.13p-i686-pc-linux-gnu-bin. I will try and download gnat-3.13p-nt.exe
> and see if I get those files.

Errr...only one (at most) of those is going to work on your system.
What Operating System are you using? Some variant of Microsoft Windows
perhaps?