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From: Natasha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@instinctive.eu>
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Subject: Re: Cross-toolchain for DS [was: Newcomers to comp.lang.ada:
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On 2014-10-12, Natasha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@instinctive.eu> wrote:
> On 2014-10-12, Natasha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@instinctive.eu> wrote:
>> FWIW, I have already started with devkitARM build scripts (after some
>> tweaking to make it work on a FreeBSD host), added Ada to the list in
>> --enable-languages.
>>
>> I'm currently stumbling on the gnat* not being installed (there are a
>> lot of messages like "install: gnatchop: No such file or directory"
>> and even a "You must first build the GNAT library: make gnatlib").
>
> Just in case anyone is interested in following up that particular issue,
> I have just solved it. It turns out that all devkitARM patches for
> gcc-4.8.2 apply flawlessly on gcc-4.9.0. So I bumped up gcc version and
> apply avr-gnat patches on top of devkitARM patches, and the build
> succeeded.
>
> I will try playing with it in a few days (at least to test whether it
> actually manages to build stuff), but I can provide the current patch if
> anyone is interested.

Still following up, I managed to compile a sort of « C in Ada » program
on the DS, where a package exports a "main" procedure with C
convention, and imports a lot of libnds C primitives to setup a console
and read the keypad scan. All of this without a RTS and without
Interfaces.C (C types are declared in the test body instead).

As before, I can make patches and build instructions available, if
anyone is interested.

I had to stop because of hardware issue in my microSD card and/or
microSD-on-USB reader, I have to replace them before continuing tests on
real hardware. However in the meantime I guess I can try moving the
linking from C-like command line to a gpr, or try to get some RTS
features, or at least a system-wide Interfaces.C.


Natasha