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    From Bob Creasy@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 14 10:30:17 2022
    If my experience is typical, it's no wonder Ada isn't popular. I've downloaded the installer for GNAT 2018 for MacOS, since it's the only one containing Gnat Studio. While I can easily find documentation for installing Gnat on Windows and Linux, I can't
    find any for MacOS. In fact, Adacore leaves out MacOS installation in their tutorials. If MacOS isn't supported, then why confuse users by making it available for download?

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  • From Simon Wright@21:1/5 to Bob Creasy on Sat Jan 15 09:37:07 2022
    Bob Creasy <joebeazelman@gmail.com> writes:

    If my experience is typical, it's no wonder Ada isn't popular. I've downloaded the installer for GNAT 2018 for MacOS, since it's the only
    one containing Gnat Studio. While I can easily find documentation for installing Gnat on Windows and Linux, I can't find any for MacOS. In
    fact, Adacore leaves out MacOS installation in their tutorials. If
    MacOS isn't supported, then why confuse users by making it available
    for download?

    GNAT CE 2019 for macOS includes GPS, the previous name for GNATStudio.

    Having dowloaded the disk image gnat-community-2019-20190517-x86_64-darwin-bin.dmg, I double-click on it
    and a Finder window opens showing the installer gnat-community-2019-20190517-x86_64-darwin-bin.

    Double-click on this, and a window pops up saying

    “gnat-community-2019-20190517-x86_64-darwin-bin” cannot be opened
    because the developer cannot be verified.

    and offering the choice of ejecting the disk image or cancelling.

    When the machine does this - fair enough, Apple don't want it to be
    too easy to install random software - the trick is, instead of
    double-clicking on the installer, to pop up an option menu, either with Control-<left mouse button> or just <right mouse button>, and choose
    "Open". Now you get a pop-up saying

    macOS cannot verify the developer of
    “gnat-community-2019-20190517-x86_64-darwin-bin”. Are you sure you
    want to open it?

    By opening this app, you will be overriding system security which
    can expose your computer and personal information to malware that
    may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy.

    and this time you have an "Open" option. Select it, and off you go.

    (I haven't tried this on Monterey, because I already have GNAT CE 2019 installed, or on an M1 Mac, because I don't have one.)

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Bj=c3=b6rn_Lundin?=@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 15 13:11:43 2022
    Den 2022-01-14 kl. 19:30, skrev Bob Creasy:

    hmm, below reply ended up unintentionally as mail to the OP.
    It was intended for c.l.a


    If my experience is typical, it's no wonder Ada isn't popular. I've downloaded the installer for GNAT 2018 for MacOS, since it's the only one containing Gnat Studio.


    I just downloaded 2018, double-clicked the .img, started the installer,
    which installed
    * gnat
    * spark
    * gps

    all in /Users/xxx/opt/GNAT/2018/bin


    set path as instructed in last install screen


    start gps (terminal or Finder)
    I don't think you get an icon in /Applications



    While I can easily find documentation for installing Gnat on Windows
    and Linux, I can't find any for MacOS.

    but do you need one?

    In fact, Adacore leaves out MacOS installation in their tutorials. If
    MacOS isn't supported, then why confuse users by making it available
    for download?


    It is getting out of support - I think. I don't think they plan on go
    beyond intel 64bit.





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    Björn

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