Ada4Hurd

Introduction

Ada4Hurd provides tools and examples to ease Ada development in Hurd. It is at an early stage.

ada2def

• It is based on the ASIS standard
• It analyse an Ada specification and generates some .defs file

def2ada

• Using opentoken it analyse a .defs file
  • it can generate server skeleton
  • it can generate a client library for easy connection to the server

xmladafs

• Mainly a translation of xmlfs in Ada
  • write capabilities development is undergoing
  • use xmlada

hello

• Hello World example translated in Ada

netfs_base

• Mainly a dummy translator to understand netfs mechanisms
• Some results of netfs experimentation

Where to find the code

• Ada4Hurd is a sourceforge based project

• Mercurial is used as DVCS

  $ hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/ada4hurd/code ada4hurd-code

Build the code

• Install the build dependencies as root

  $ apt-get install gnat libopentoken4-dev libxmlada5-dev libasis2014-dev

• Build

  $ cd ada4hurd-code $ make

• Play with xmladafs

  $ make trans_on

• Run netfs tests

  • In netfs_base directory

  $ make trans_dbg_on