From: Simon Clubley [simon_clubley@remove_me.altavista.co.uk-Earth.UFP] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 8:08 AM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Re: Getting DEC ADA 3.5A to work On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 03:18:57 GMT, in article , Zane H. Healy wrote: > >It's a Hobbyist Alpha system. I think it's safe to assume that it will be a >*long* while before I have a chance to upgrade to a Hobbyist Itanium system >(that will partitially depend on hardware requirements to run OpenVMS on >Itanium). As such, the only real problem I see here is that it's Ada83 >instead of Ada95, however, as near as I can tell GNAT isn't available to >Hobbyists on OpenVMS. > GNAT on VMS Alpha is available. Attached is something that I wrote a few months back in comp.lang.ada. Note that I have not made heavy use of this implementation, as I have been mainly using GNAT on Linux, but it does work for the things that I tried. BTW, if you haven't found it yet, http://www.adapower.com has a vast range of online resources and tutorials for Ada. ------------------ Original Article Below -------------------------------- On Sun, 09 Sep 2001 23:14:18 GMT, in article <3B9BF675.4AD79FFF@NOSPAMcompaq.com>, Charlie McCutcheon wrote: > >Stefan Skoglund wrote: > >> Larry Kilgallen wrote: >> > It looks to me like it is at: >> > >> > ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/private/old/openvms/ >> >> Thanks (i'm son gonna be a happy VAXstation owner ) > >I don't believe that is a VAX target. I think they've only ported to >OpenVMS Alpha, but I could be wrong... > >Charlie > Charlie is correct, the port at the above address is for Alpha only and no port for VAX exists. In case the original poster knows this and was using "VAXstation" as a generic term, the following may be helpful: Before installing the above kit, you need to install the Ada Predefined Libraries for GNAT as well as the current C RTL patch kit. You can find the Predefined Libraries at: http://www.openvms.compaq.com/commercial/ada/ and follow the link under "Ada 95 Utilities". Be aware that Charlie _does_ read the feedback form. :-) You can find the C RTL patch kit for your version of VMS by starting at: ftp://ftp.service.digital.com/public/vms/axp/ The debugger in use is GDB, but GDB is not supplied as part of the public kit. I asked ACT about this, and Robert Dewar's response was that there was a GDB kit at NYU, but it appears to have been removed. He suggested that I look at the mirrors, but this did not turn up anything. E-Mail to NYU also went unanswered. If you do find a GDB for VMS, please post it's location here, as I would be interested in finding it. Simon. ------------------- End Original Article ---------------------------------- Simon. -- Simon Clubley, simon_clubley@remove_me.altavista.co.uk-Earth.UFP Microsoft: The Lada of the computing world.