Tag Archives: Android

Zero Testsuite Failures for GNATDroid = Ada on Android

By Thomas Løcke | Published: August 24, 2011
The DragonLace project is at it again! John Marino has acquired an Android device and, after building GNATDroid-ARMv7, has confirmed that he could compile Ada programs on FreeBSD and execute them on the Android tablet. That is just awesome news, both for FreeBSD users and Ada programmers in general. The work done by John is [...]
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Ada Programming For Android?

By Thomas Løcke | Published: July 25, 2011
The DragonLace.net project, who’re responsible for bringing the GNAT AUX Ada compiler to the *BSD users, are hard at work on enabling Ada programmers to build software for Android devices without having to touch Java, or as John Marino said in a recent comp.lang.ada post on the subject: It would be a nice project for [...]
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DragonLace and Ada Support on *BSD / *Solaris / Android

By Thomas Løcke | Published: March 3, 2011
In a lengthy post to comp.lang.ada John Marino of DragonLace fame outlines the current status of Ada support for *BSD, *Solaris and Android. And things are looking pretty good: For a long time, support for Ada was poor to non-existent for the four major BSD platforms of FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, and OpenBSD. GNAT would not [...]
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GNAT AUX Ported to Android

By Thomas Løcke | Published: February 1, 2011
Building Android applications in Ada is no longer a faraway dream, now that the DragonLace project has managed to successfully built the GNAT AUX cross compiler Android. This is very exciting news indeed, and seeing a screenshot of an Ada hello world program running in the Android SDK is just amazingly cool. But don’t take [...]
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