Ada Resource Association

Here are some recent updates to our Free Tools and Libraries page:

October 14, 2021: Added Adare_Net, a small, portable and easy to use Ada network library.
June 14, 2021: Added Portable OpenAL Sound, a minimal library interfacing to OpenAL Sound to provide the capabilities of playing sound files on many platforms.
Added ARE (Advanced Resource Embedder), a tool which can generate Ada code to embed a file (image, script, etc) in an Ada executable.
April 8, 2021: Added aShell, a library for adding shell-like operations to an Ada program.
January 26, 2021: Added Dotenv, a library to load environment variables from a file.
December 18, 2020: Added UXStrings, a Unicode string package.
Added DePlo, a program to create a plot of dependencies between Ada packages.
October 16, 2020: Added GDNative, a binding to Godot Nativescript.
Added MP, a Music Player based on the Gnoga audio widget.
Added Resource, a tool to convert resource files to Ada source code to be compiled and included in a binary.
(This post will be periodically updated – Webmaster.)

We’ve recently added seven websites to our Learning Materials pages:

• GetAdaNow.com – Get Ada Now provides a quick start to acquiring and installing a free Ada development system.
• Ada.tips – Provides tips on using Ada.
• Adaformicrocontrollers.com – A forum providing questions and answers on using Ada on microcontrollers.
• LearnAdaNow.com – Learn Ada Now is dedicated to learning to write software in Ada.
• Ada – A Crash Course by Peter Chapin is an (under construction) Ada 2012 tutorial with examples.
• Ada on ARM Cortex-M – This is a tutorial dedicated to teaching how to use Ada to program an embedded system, with the specific example of the Arduino Due board.
• AdaCore University – This site provides a series of courses on Ada and related technology.

There recently have been some questions about how often the pages here are updated. We try to verify the information on the pages at least twice per year, and of course we add information as it becomes available. For instance, today we added a couple of free libraries (OpenGLAda and Yami4) that we had previously unintentionally left out. If you find any stale information on our site, please use the contact page to tell us about it.

This has been available for a while, but I don’t think we ever featured it here. CBSG is an Ada program that creates pages of the best (random and usually meaningless) corporate-speak available. It can be accessed on-line at CBSG and the source code is available.

GNAT GPL 2011, the integrated Ada, C, and C++ toolset for Academic users and FLOSS developers is now available for download. This new edition provides many new features and enhancements in all areas of the technology. The most notable ones are:

– Improved support for Ada 2012
– Enhanced versions of tools
– GPS 5.0 enhanced IDE (improved support for C/C++, more powerful source editing, better usability, ….)
– GtkAda (new widgets, interface to the Cairo graphics library)
– More flexible and more efficient project manager tool
– Support for unloading Ada plug-ins
– Improved support for Ada constructs on the .NET platform
– More detailed exception messages (-gnateE switch)
– Complete support for Lego MINDSTORMS hardware, including audio and I2C sensors

GNAT GPL 2011 comes with version 5.0.1 of the GNAT Programming Studio IDE and GNATbench 2.5.1, the GNAT plug-in for Eclipse.

To download, please visit http://libre.adacore.com/libre/download.

We’ve just added DragonLace.Net to the free tools and libraries resource page.

Over the last year, John Marino has developed a substantial set of patches and now GNAT from GCC-4.6 passes the entire ACATS and gnat.dg testsuite without failure on FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, and NetBSD on both the AMD64 and i386 platforms. The version is called “GNAT-AUX” and it also builds on OpenBSD with only a single failure the same two platforms.

For more info: http://www.dragonlace.net/