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Ada compiler
type568
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March 2007
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Posted on 12/09/2009 9:06 PM   View Profile

I need an Ada compiler, and I found out it's really not an easy thing to get.. I got some..

AdaGIDE v. 6.22.10

US Air Force Academy September 2, 1999.

It's really no appealing. Really. The IDE is worse than terrible, some old DOS based Borland Turbo C++ was more pleasant to work with.

I've spent at least two hours now trying to find something normal.. I found Minimalist Ada compiler, but Code::Blocks nor Eclipse don't seem to see it, and I didn't find any installation instructions either. It was surprising to see Code::Blocks actually did spot all my other compilers for C/C++.

I also found some Habachi project, an Ada plugin for eclipse which didn't work(not like it had a readme either, but putting it in to the plugins did nothing :( ).

I'm just out of ideas unfortunately..

And I need help :(

Todd Cope
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Posted on 12/09/2009 9:23 PM   View Profile

GCC has an Ada compiler. Are you using Windows? If so the automated MinGW installer should have a dialog where you check which compilers to install. If you have MinGW already it should be no trouble at all to install gcc-ada package.

AdaGIDE is not a compiler, it is an IDE which uses the GNAT Ada compiler (we used it when I was in school).

Here's some links that might be useful:

MinGW Files
GCC Ada 4.4.0
GCC Ada 4.4.0 DLLs

Goalie Ca
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Posted on 12/09/2009 9:25 PM   View Profile

gcc has one called gnat
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnat/

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type568
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Posted on 12/09/2009 9:27 PM   View Profile

Thank you.. I have MinGW installed, and I did check the Ada box during the installation. However, I've no clue how to use it.. Also I need an IDE that knows Ada, preferably better than the above named IDE.

Append:
Obviously both Code::Blocks and Eclipse suit for that purpose, only that I need to let them know that they do.

Append1:
Put the DLL files in to CodeBlocks MinGW\bin folder, lunched- Ada didn't appear in the compilers list..

LennyLen
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December 2004
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Posted on 12/09/2009 9:38 PM   View Profile

Maybe this

type568
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March 2007
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Posted on 12/09/2009 9:42 PM   View Profile
LennyLen said:

Maybe this

Sorry forgot to mention Libre(looks like part of gnatXXX) which doesn't seem to be free, or even have a trial download.. I really don't wanna pay USD500 to code four little projects to submit to the university..

LennyLen
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Posted on 12/09/2009 9:48 PM   View Profile

The eclipse plugin is free.

edit: So is their GNAT Programming Studio IDE.

type568
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Posted on 12/09/2009 10:10 PM   View Profile

Sorry, I confused it..
It just doesn't give the download, and googling it gives just 3 pages as a result.

LennyLen
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Posted on 12/09/2009 10:23 PM   View Profile Attachments

You're doing something very wrong.

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edit: the img tag isn't working for some reason

type568
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March 2007
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Posted on 12/09/2009 10:32 PM   View Profile

Thank you.
I couldn't download it because I wasn't logged in(neither was I registered), and for some reason this error didn't appear on Chrome, I was simply not given the download and been getting a white blank page.

Tried it with Safari, got the error downloading now..

Downloaded & Installed AdaCode.
Thanks again.

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