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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: free Ada compiler ?
Date: 14 Jan 2002 09:48:31 -0500
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"Thomas Mueller" <tmueller@bluegrass.net> writes:

> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:06:37 -0500, hongxun lee wrote:
> > Is there such a unix version compiler (better can be installed on Cygwin) ?
> 
> There is GNAT, available for Linux i386 and a few other Unixes,
> MS-Windows and OpenVMS too. I am not familiar with Cygwin.

Cygwin is a Unix environment for MS-Windows, implementing all the Gnu
tools. See http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin. It works quite well, but
ACT decided to use a different approach to implement GNAT on Windows.

> Does anybody know if GNAT can be cross-compiled for a platform where
> there is no GNAT binary currently available? For instance, Linux on
> non-i386, or NetBSD on i386 and non-i386.

Yes, GNAT can be built as a cross-compiler. That is the only way to
put it on a platform for which you do not have a binary. However, you
must know what you are doing, and the build instructions that come
with the source are not particularly helpful; it can take some
experimentation. This situation may improve when GNAT is released on
gcc 3.1.

-- 
-- Stephe