GNAT GPL Edition
2010 Edition Now Available!
We are pleased to announce the release of GNAT GPL 2010, the integrated Ada,C,C++ toolset for 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:
- First taste of Ada 2012 with features such as conditional or case expressions
- Enhanced IDE (tips, new views, better doc generator
- GNAT Project API available in GNATColl
- Support for Windows 7
- Support for MacOS X Snow Leopard (64 bit)
- Support for Visual Studio 2008 for the .NET Framework
- Support for AVR (embedded 8 bit)
- Ravenscar support for the Lego Mindstorm NXT port (future availability)
In the context of the GAP program, we hope the last 2 points above will provide new and interesting options for real-time and/or robotics classes.
GNAT GPL 2010 comes with version 4.4.1 of the GNAT Programming Studio IDE and GNATbench 2.4.0, 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 »