Gnat for Mac Ada programming

Question

I\'m learning Ada 95 in my programming class, and I would like to install the gnat compiler on my MacBook. I have no clue as to where to get a good gna

Answer 1

I have OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, and I followed the following steps.

1. Download GNAT from this place http://libre.adacore.com/download/configurations. Choose Mac OS X as the platform.

2. Execute the following commands on the terminal:

   1. Unzip or (tar the file downloaded from the previous step, for example, as follows:

      tar zxvf gnat-gpl-2012-x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-bin.tar.gz   
      

      Note: this assumes that you're in the same folder as the file you downloaded in step 1.

   2. cd gnat-gpl-2012-x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-bin

   3. sudo ./doinstall

3. Edit your .bash_profile file under /Users/{YOUR_USER_NAME}/.bash_profile to also have the following line

   export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/gnat/bin
   

4. Save the .bash_profile file.

5. Open a new terminal. You should now be able to execute gnatmake.