Vincent DIEMUNSCH wrote: > Hello Alexander, > > Thanks for your response. > > Some GNAT sources are in Ada so GNAT needs to be compiled by GNAT, > and therfore a source package would be difficult to do, at first step > :-)). > > But we could simply add the GNAT compiler as a binary package, no ? > It wouldn't require too much work to get the current versions of GNAT for > OS X as binary packages and put them into Fink ? > > Were can I find documentation on how to do that ? > > Vincent > No real clue here. I'm familiar with a few packages that bootstrap from precompiled binaries, such as sbcl. That'd probably be the way to go. > > > 2009/4/30 Alexander Hansen <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Vincent DIEMUNSCH wrote: > > I am new to fink and I like it much. > > I make some development in Ada with the free GNAT compiler and I > > wonder if it could be possible to > > have the GNAT compiler under fink ? > If you're able to make up a package for it, you'd be more than welcome > to. :-) > > If you're asking if somebody else can do it, then the answer is: > possibly, time and interest permitting. > > And Is it possible to have modules > > written in Ada that could be > > compiled by GNAT as Fink packages or is Fink restrained to C > programs ? > > > > > That would be possible, if GNAT were in Fink. We have perl modules, > python modules, ruby modules, packages that are compiled from Fortran > source code--the build system is sufficiently flexible to handle most > things that are thrown at it. > > Thanks for your response. > > > > Vincent > > > > > > > -- > Alexander Hansen > Fink User Liaison > >
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