GNAT GPL Edition
2011 Edition Now Available!
We are pleased to announce the release of GNAT GPL 2011, the integrated Ada, C, and C++ toolset for Academic users and FLOSS developers. 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.
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 commercial/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
- PolyORB: to build distributed systems using CORBA and the Ada distributed systems annex
Learn about features added in the previous release 2009 GPL Edition »