Re: No Free GNAT 2022

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Charly <carl.weierstrass@googlemail.com> writes:

> Hi everbody,
>
> in the last 10 or 15 year I always downloaded the new free GNAT from
> Adacore in may or june. This year there was no new version but a hint,
> I should transition to Alire. But the <Link Find out how to transition
> to Alire> only gives me a "404 Page not found" error.
> Can I get any help?
> What is Alire?

https://alire.ada.dev/

> How does it replace the old free GNAT? 

Alire is a package manager designed for and implemented in Ada.

It provides a GNAT compiler and associated tools, but they are intended
to be used with the Alire packages. You can use them for your own code,
either by creating a new Alire package to contain your code (and
possibly eventually publish it), or by setting your PATH to point to the
compiler installed by Alire.

I'm just getting started with Alire myself, partly for the same reason.

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