| Title: | MS Windows NT Developers |
| Notice: | See note 1222 for MS bug reporting info |
| Moderator: | TARKIN::LIN EIBER |
| Created: | Mon Nov 11 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3247 |
| Total number of notes: | 15633 |
I am about to port an application from Digital Unix/Alpha to NT. The main part is written in ADA 83 and mostly system-independant, and there is a smaller system-dependant part in C++. Does someone know of a 'good' ADA compiler for NT (either Alpha or Intel) available now ? It seems that Digital recommends Rational Corp. products, but Rational Apex ADA for NT is still beta and due to be released in August '97. And Rational VADSself compiler seems to be 'not stable enough' for porting a major application. I will appreciate advice from people who had to deal with the same problem. Jerome. [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 3244.1 | Places to look? Has anyone *really* done this yet? | BBPBV1::WALLACE | john wallace @ bbp. +44 860 675093 | Thu May 29 1997 11:35 | 23 |
I haven't done this myself, but I'm working with customers looking at
unusual Ada platforms (and I think NT and Ada are an unusual
combination).
An AltaVista search for "Ada compiler" and "windows NT" comes up with
the usual suspects. You already eliminated Rational, there are others.
There's (for example) Greenhills. I'm not sure they are still in the
game, last I hear they were finding Ada a lot harder than other
languages.
There's GNAT (GNU Ada Toolkit) for ADA 95 - for free, but with
commercial support via Ada Core Technologies in France. Alpha UNIX and
Alpha OpenVMS today, Alpha NT Q297 (says www.act.com). Plus Intel Win32
today.
I suspect a search of the back pages of (e.g.) Byte might also find
some names not on the Web.
Anybody got first hand experience of doing this ?
regards
john
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