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From: Georg Bauhaus on 16 Mar 2010 06:20 Martin schrieb: >>> Is there an FSF-derived version of GNAT that runs on the "Snow >>> Leopard" version of Mac OS X? >> At the moment I'm running gcc version 4.5.0 20100221 (experimental) >> [trunk revision 156937] built for x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0 & also have >> i686-apple-darwin10.2.0. But I've not uploaded either of these anywhere >> as yet .. >> >> At the same place, under GNAT_GCC Mac OS X > 4.4.2, you'll find a >> collection of .dmg's posted by Martin Krischik. I've not used these. >> >> HTH > > Thanks Simon - for the first time since Snow Leopard, I have a working > Ada compiler!! :-) > > I'm using the "Lightweight IDE" - sorry Emacs was just as much a 'way- > of-life' tool as I remember...and I didn't enjoy the experience the > first time round. > > Hopefully, AdaCore will be releasing a GNAT GPL 2010 for Snow Leopard > in a few months and I can get back to GPS. There are some more setups on Mac OS X that sort of work, maybe even on SL. They are strange, but still worth mentioning, I think. One is using Wine/CrossOver to run the Windows GNAT GPL programs. Even GPS works reasonably well. (AdaGIDE seems to use some Win32 calls that are not that well supported by the wine libraries.) The other approach uses a virtual machine like VMWare Fusion together with Mac OS X's X11 server. For example, run a small, text only, GNU/Linux machine. All graphical needs are being served on the Mac side. Incidentally, the Wine approach "ports" nice helper programs like Pragsoft's UMLStudio to Mac OS X.
From: Dirk Heinrichs on 16 Mar 2010 13:39 Niklas Holsti wrote: > But I would really need an FSF-licenced compiler, because > some of my source code is under NDA from other parties and can't be > opened. You could use GNAT-GPL to bootstrap GNAT-FSF. At least on Linux this works fine. But be prepared for some hours of work since newer versions of GCC have some dependencies. If you need more info just drop me a mail. Bye... Dirk
From: Simon Wright on 16 Mar 2010 16:12 Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti(a)tidorum.invalid> writes: > But I would really need an FSF-licenced compiler, > because some of my source code is under NDA from other parties and > can't be opened. OK, have a look at http://public.me.com/simon.j.wright for the 4.5.0 x86_64 compiler. As far as I can remember, the C & Ada testsuites passed with flying colors. I see that that archive includes some Fortran relics of a previous installation, sorry about that. Andrew Reynolds, over at macada -- http://hermes.gwu.edu/archives/gnat-osx.html for the mailing list -- has also built a 4.5.0 compiler, not sure whether that was for Snow Leopard or just Leopard.
From: Simon Wright on 16 Mar 2010 16:50 Jerry <lanceboyle(a)qwest.net> writes: > On Mar 15, 3:09�pm, Simon Wright <si...(a)pushface.org> wrote: >> If you go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/files/and navigate >> to GNAT_GPL Mac OS X > 2009-snow-leopard you'll find 64- and 32-bit >> compilers. > > Sorry if these questions have been asked before. > > (1) Do either of these compilers work with Xcode? > (a) If so, which one(s) and what version of Xcode? I don't know, but wouldn't it have to be Xcode 3.2 for SL? > (2) Do either of these compilers work with the debugger gdb? > (a) If so, is it included with the download? Certainly the x86_64 compiler works with Apple's gdb (presumably from Xcode 3.2?): $ gdb ./zero_length_string GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1346) (Fri Sep 18 20:40:51 UTC 2009) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-apple-darwin"...Reading symbols for shared libraries ... done (gdb) b zero_length_string.adb:5 Breakpoint 1 at 0x100001e7b: file zero_length_string.adb, line 5. (gdb) run Starting program: /Users/simon/tmp/zero_length_string Reading symbols for shared libraries ++. done Breakpoint 1, _ada_zero_length_string () at zero_length_string.adb:5 5 Put_Line ("S is """ (gdb) p s $1 = "" Current language: auto; currently ada (gdb) p s'length $2 = 0 (gdb) l 1 with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; 2 procedure Zero_Length_String is 3 S : String (-5 .. -7) := ""; 4 begin 5 Put_Line ("S is """ 6 & S 7 & """, 'First is " 8 & Integer'Image (S'First) 9 & ", 'Last is " 10 & Integer'Image (S'Last)); (gdb) p s'first $3 = -5 (gdb) p s'last $4 = -6 so it clearly knows a *lot* about Ada! Similar results with the gdb included in AdaCore's GNAT GPL 2009 distribution. > (3) Do either of these compilers work with the gdb GUI in Xcode? Don't know. > (4) Is the 32-bit version more functional with respect to exceptions? I don't think so. There certainly used to be a problem, discussed from http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41260#c34 onward, but it's not present in the 64-bit compiler here. > (5) After installing in their default locations, can they be moved? No, because even in a static link some of the GCC libraries are linked dynamically from the as-built installation location, and remember where they were linked from (-rpath). Of course, there's probably some cunning way round that ... > Yes, that helps, but the picture is still confused. Are things labeled > x86 64-bit and i386 32-bit? Yes. > What are the .dmgs under GNAT_GCC Mac OS > X.>gnat-gcc-4.4.2.dmg? How are they different from those under > GNAT_GPL Mac OS X>2009-snow-leopard? Well, the GNAT_GCC versions are FSF compilers, with the full GNAT-modified GPL on the runtime, whereas the GNAT_GPL versions are rebuilds of AdaCore's compilers with the GNAT extensions to the licence removed. > Is there anything at macada.org > that is useful for Snow Leopard? Not sure, sorry
From: (see below) on 16 Mar 2010 17:04
On 16/03/2010 20:50, in article m2fx40ng7w.fsf(a)pushface.org, "Simon Wright" <simon(a)pushface.org> wrote: > Jerry <lanceboyle(a)qwest.net> writes: >> (2) Do either of these compilers work with the debugger gdb? >> (a) If so, is it included with the download? > > Certainly the x86_64 compiler works with Apple's gdb (presumably from > Xcode 3.2?): Do people know that GNAT plays quite nicely with Shark, the statistical profiling tool that is part of the MacOS X 'CHUD' set of SDK utilities? This lets you see your Ada source listed with CPU time percentages on each line; optionally side-by-side with the corresponding machine code. It is an invaluable optimization (or anti-pessimization) tool. -- Bill Findlay <surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk |