Re: GNAT and Atmel AVR Microcontrollers

[Erik Johannessen <erik.johannessen@kongsberg.com>]

karlran1234@yahoo.com (Karl Ran) writes:

> >About two months ago I built a cross gnat for AVR.  It appeared to
> >generate correct code for a few simple examples (I never got around to
> >generate an actual executable).
> 
> So, you just did something like:
> gcc3.01: configure --language-ada --target-avr ??

Yes, except that you need gcc from cvs (or a snapshot) and the
configure options are slightly different.

You also need a recent binutils and preferably avr-libc.

> Sounds too easy to me.
> Stephen Leake mentioned 6 man-months (which is a bit too much for me)

AFAICR this is the (estimated) time needed to port the runtime.

-Erik
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