ADA GNAT whatever-ADA dialect for Linux and UNIX

[legacy]

so, I am looking at GNAT's recipe again

Build instructions

To build the compiler unfortunately you need an ada/c/c++ compiler already available, to produce an ada/c/c++ compiler.

If you don't have an ada compiler available you must set the bootstrap use flags. In this case the compiler used will be gnat-gpl-2014-x86_64-linux-bin.tar.gz from libre.adacore.com.

and again it's a face palm 

There is NO boot-strapper for IBM-POWER, HPPA, MIPSBE ... you are doomed

Does anyone happen to know of something alternative?
(opensource or commercial)
and in this case, do you know if it's requested a license? 

yup

[legacy]

(in the meanwhile I am pushing gnat-v4.9.3 as well as gcc-core-v4.9.3
and the special bootstrapper provided by AdaCore, into my x86 box ...
it will take the whole night  )

[legacy]

Good gold days ...

Ada on SGI/IRIX

The Silicon Graphics AXM (Ada X/Motif) Ada Development System provides an Ada development environment for Silicon Graphics platforms. It consists of

Ada compiler (ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A)

X11 and OSF/Motif

Bindings to the IRIS Graphics Library

Non-intrusive, symbolic debugger

MP/Ada 6.2 is a multiprocessor Ada development system. It's built using the POSIX-compliant threads model for Ada tasking. If your application runs on a multiprocessor platform, MP/Ada6.2 allows Ada tasks in this application to run concurrently.

[dnotq]

You need Ada to compile GNAT??  That would suck.  I have been looking at getting into Ada after realizing VHDL is basically Ada, and I really like VHDL. :-)  Also, I saw this article and really wanted to do some Ada:

http://cowlark.com/2014-04-27-ada/index.html

Great info, IMO.  I never knew anything about Ada, now that I do it seems very cool.

[Naguissa]

so, I am looking at GNAT's recipe again

Build instructions

To build the compiler unfortunately you need an ada/c/c++ compiler already available, to produce an ada/c/c++ compiler.

If you don't have an ada compiler available you must set the bootstrap use flags. In this case the compiler used will be gnat-gpl-2014-x86_64-linux-bin.tar.gz from libre.adacore.com.

and again it's a face palm 

There is NO boot-strapper for IBM-POWER, HPPA, MIPSBE ... you are doomed

Does anyone happen to know of something alternative?
(opensource or commercial)
and in this case, do you know if it's requested a license? 

yup

Stupid question maybe, but....

You cannot cros-compile from your existing x86 box?

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[legacy]

You cannot cros-compile from your existing x86 box?

Too complex because two compilers are involved in the process
GCC-C, which is known and proved of being able to crosscompile itself
ADACORE, which is not 

and you have to iterate both of them during the process

[legacy]

VHDL is basically Ada

It's a restricted subset designed for HDL.

Ada was designed with different goals in mind, and implementation like SGI's ADA were focused on parallelism on BIG IRON machines (>32 CPUs).

Two different purposes, two different planets!

I need ADA to compile a VHDL compiler, anyway, thus the problem is unsolved, sing the only OpenSource available VHDL compiler(1) is ghdl, which is written in ... ADA 

freeHDL is written in C++, but even with the last version v0.0.8 it doesn't work at all 

[dnotq]

You may as well just bite the bullet and write your own Ada compiler... ;-)  At the very least it might be fun... ?

[legacy]

write your own Ada compiler

ADA, as language, is very very complex, and a compiler can't be called "ADA" until it has passed several severity tests!

Thus it's not one-man project, and it's not suitable as week-ends project, unless you have infinite-time (something like --- being prepared to continue the project in the next next life).


I have already written some tools, such as code analyzer (focused on a subset) and interface-auto builders. Basically they are simple parser tools which generate AST for simple tasks.

Sorry, I am limited