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Thursday January 11, 2007

Where is the Ada compiler on Solaris? (Answer follows)
We (the compiler group) often get asked this question:
What Ada Compiler does Sun recommend? Does Sun ship an Ada compiler as part of its compilers+tools set?

The answer to the second one is: "No, Sun no longer ships an Ada compiler. The last one we shipped was in 1995. It is now EOLed".
The answer to the first one is a bit longer. Here goes:
The currently recommended Ada product is based GNAT (GNU Ada Translator). It's available from GNU at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnat/gnat.html

Ada Core technology is the company that provide support, training etc...and they can be reached at:
http://www.adacore.com/home/
Ada Core is also a Sun Partner (you can find them here).
Sun currently has no plan to provide its own Ada Tools on Solaris. Both the Ada products (one free and one supported) mentioned above, work fine on Solaris and interoperate with Sun Studio.

Hope that clears it up!

Posted by tatkar ( Jan 11 2007, 08:33:46 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [2]