Re: A new universe of Ada

[Roger Mc <rogermcm2@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 12:10:32 AM UTC+10, Simon Wright wrote:
> Roger Mc <roge...@gmail.com> writes: 
> 
> > On Monday, September 26, 2022 at 11:23:35 PM UTC+10, kevc...@gmail.com wrote: 
> >> You can get a hello world open in gnat studio 
> >> with two? commands though. 
> >> 
> >> "https://alire.ada.dev/docs/#first-steps" 
> > Following the "first-steps", progress succeeded up to 
> > gnat_native=11.2.4 installed successfully but then failure: 
> > dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: 
> > ___darwin_check_fd_set_overflow 
> > Any ideas on how to fix this: 
> > Thanks, 
> > Roger
> I tried this on my mid-2012 Macbook Pro running 10.11.6 (El Capitan), 
> the problem arises when running gprconfig (all the Alire-provided 
> releases were built against a later Xcode (Google suggests 11.4 or 
> later??) which does provide this symbol). I dare say it'd happen running 
> the compiler too. 
> 
> Only suggestion: install one of my builds, set it on your PATH, run alr 
> toolchain --select & choose the 'gnat_external' line for the 
> compiler. Alire then chooses a compatible gprbuild. 
> 
> 11.2.0 at Github: 
> https://github.com/simonjwright/distributing-gcc/releases/tag/gcc-11.2.0-native 
> 
> Or 12.1.0 from Github: 
> https://github.com/simonjwright/distributing-gcc/releases/tag/gcc-12.1.0-x86_64

Thanks Simon
I cloned 12.1.0 from Github then tried .doinstall in the native directory.
It gets to Do you want to proceed with installation but when I respond with Y nothing happens.