Building GNAT (Ada) 4.2.2 for bare hardware

Luke A. Guest laguest@archeia.com
Wed Jan 16 23:01:00 GMT 2008


On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 08:24 -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Luke A. Guest wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking to build a version of gnat (Ada) for bare hardware but it
> > requires dirent.h which isn't supported by newlib.
> >
> > My targets are i386-elf, x86_64-elf, mips-elf and mipsel-elf. I'm
> > attempting to write an OS  from scratch using Ada and don't require much
> > of the runtime like tasking, exceptions, file IO, etc.
> >
> > For more of idea of what I'm planning, go to http://www.archeia.com and
> > look for the TAMP entry.
> >
> > Can somebody point me in the right direction?
> >   
> How bare do you want the hardware?  GNAT+RTEMS works

Seeing as I stated want to write an OS kernel (see the website),
completely bare. RTEMS is an OS, no use to me.

Luke.




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