Gnat Compilation System (GPS)
This is an Ada compilation system, including an integrated
programming environment with a GUI. It includes a compiler
with some of the Ada 2005 extensions, a bunch of
additional libraries, and an Ada-aware version of the Gdb
debugger. AdaCore sells the
professional version of this product, for various target
architectures and operating systems.
For COP 4020 we have a free copy for educational use.
I have installed the
Linux version in my home directory. If you would like to use this
compiler, with the debugger , and perhaps try out the GUI,
you can add "/home/faculty/baker/linux/gnat/bin" to your PATH
environment variable. When you type "gdb", "gnatmake", etc. the
loader will get the copies from my directory instead of the
standard place. Just using the Ada-aware gdb will be a big help.
If you decide to use the IDE you will need to be logged into a
Linux/Unix workstation that is runing and X server and has a
network connection that will accept X-window connections (but of
course these can be tunneled through ssh). The command to start
the IDE is just "gps". Please let me know
if you have any problems accessing it.
