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Re: Compiling the GNU ada compiler on a very old platform
Hi Geert!
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:44:11 UTC, Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>
wrote:
>
> On Aug 21, 2009, at 18:40, Paul Smedley wrote:
> > I'm wanting to update the GNU ADA compiler for OS/2... I'm currently
> > building GCC 4.3.x and 4.4.x on OS/2 (C/C++/fortran) but for ADA
> > configure complains about not finding gnat. The problem is that the
> > only gnat compiled for OS/2 was years ago using a different toolchain
> > so it's not suitable.
>
> I used to maintain the OS/2 port for AdaCore, but that was many years
> ago.
> IBM released its last version of OS/2 in 2001. Currently it is almost
> impossible to run OS/2 in either real modern hardware or on a
> virtualized
> system.
Not quite true - www.ecomstation.com - and it does run in things like
virtualbox. I'm running on a quad core system here and all 4 cores
are recognised.
> AFAIK, GNAT 3.15p is the last GNAT version with OS/2 support. As the
> OS/2
> version was a full implementation of Ada 95, including all annexes,
> passing
> all ACATS tests, this version should still be very useful today, if you
> have a system running OS/2, that is. If you're interested in developing
> Ada applications on OS/2, your best bet is to use GNAT 3.15p.
> You'll get a mature well-tested and very fast compiler.
I don't actually NEED this :) Another member of the community inquired
about an updated gnat, so I thought I'd look at it.
With GNAT 3.15p did it also depend on an existing gnat? or that one
built directory from source?
> This version might still be able to bootstrap GNAT.
It might - but I'm using a different c library :( libc vs emx
--
Cheers,
Paul.