GNAT GPL Edition
2009 Edition Now Available!
We are pleased to announce the release of GNAT GPL 2009, the Ada Toolset for Academic users and FLOSS developers. It introduces many new features including:
- Ability to generate byte code for the JVM
- Ability to generate byte code for the .NET Framework
- Addition of the Ada-Java Interfacing Suite (AJIS) that enables native Ada code to be called from Java.
- Availability on the Mac OS X (64 bit) platform
- Availability for the LEGO MINDSTORMS robotic building system (coming soon).
- Automatic C/C++ binding generators
- Addition of the GNAT Component Collection (GNATcoll) providing new APIs that can be extended by the user community.
- GNAT GPL 2009 comes with version 4.3.1 of the GNAT Programming Studio IDE and GNATbench 2.3, the GNAT plug-in for Eclipse.
- It is available for the GNU Linux, Mac OS X (64 bit), Mindstorms NXT, .NET, JVM and Windows platforms.
- GNAT GPL 2009 will be available from the “Download” section on the Libre website.
AdaCore is dedicated to developing the finest tools available for software development with Ada. The GNAT GPL Edition is the Ada 2005 development environment for Free Software development and the GNAT Academic Program for use in Academia. GNAT Pro for comercial/industrial development.
The GNAT GPL Edition consists of the following technologies:
- The GNAT Ada 2005 compilation system
- Various tools such as heap monitoring, unit testing, program browsing, etc.
- Ada 2005 and GNAT libraries (Containers, pattern matching, sorting, etc.)
- The GNAT Programming Studio (GPS) visual IDE
Related technologies are also available for download alongside the GNAT GPL Edition:
- AWS: to web-enable Ada applications (Ada Web Server)
- XML/Ada: to process XML streams in Ada applications
- ASIS: to develop tools for Ada software
- GtkAda: to develop modern native GUIs in Ada
- GLADE: to build distributed systems using Ada 95 DSA
- PolyORB: to build distributed systems using CORBA and Ada