From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.95.69 with SMTP id di5mr7571246obb.31.1450532383629; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 05:39:43 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.125.3 with SMTP id mm3mr89003obb.13.1450532383603; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 05:39:43 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!mv3no13553779igc.0!news-out.google.com!l1ni8133igd.0!nntp.google.com!mv3no13553768igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 05:39:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <02cc927d-a578-4e06-9706-efeb1db99e40@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=90.216.84.203; posting-account=L2-UcQkAAAAfd_BqbeNHs3XeM0jTXloS NNTP-Posting-Host: 90.216.84.203 References: <02cc927d-a578-4e06-9706-efeb1db99e40@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <166fa49f-9276-4124-a5ce-ed288f8f5c37@googlegroups.com> Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?B?UmU6IEFkYSBvbiBpT1MgP6BPciBTd2lmdC4uLg==?= From: Lucretia Injection-Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 13:39:43 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:28822 Date: 2015-12-19T05:39:43-08:00 List-Id: On Saturday, 19 December 2015 11:05:00 UTC, v...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello Everybody, >=20 > I need to develop a navigation tool on an iPad, based on GPS localisation= and speed measurement. There won't be any cartography involved but visualy= it will be something similar to the compass app. It is a small development= , so I cannot afford expensive tool support. To do that, I would love to us= e Ada : Yup, would be nice. > - Is it possible to have an Ada compiler for iOS ?=A0I have read somewher= e that GNAT=A0had been ported to ARM. Even AdaCore is proposing a free bare= board ARM=A0cross compiler. But to use GNAT on iOS is still challenging. I= s it possible to build a simple library, just for computing GPS data ? Is i= t possible to have tasking (I need at least to tasks : on for user interact= ion and the other for computation) ? GCC has an ARM backend, GNAT sits on GCC, so it can be compiled for that ba= ckend. I plan to try to compile GCC for iOS, but haven't got around to it a= s I don't really know the proper command line options required, yet. The in= tention is to add it to my free-ada build scripts, with the first build be = a cross compiler on my Linux box using NFS to mount the Mac's FS so I could= access the files in the SDK there. This is the first step, the next step is producing bindings to the various = frameworks Apple has and making sure it's all legal, i.e. Apple doesn't get= in the way. iOS is based on the Mach kernel, same as OS X, it's a form of BSD unix, so = having tasks should be trivial and afaik, it is supported. People here buil= d GNAT for OS X. =20 Luke.