Ada Examples

Collection of Ada code examples for my blog F7L8C9.

Licensed under the MIT License. See file LICENSE.

Alire

Ada LIbrary REpository is a package manager for Ada. Similar to Cargo for Rust.

• Initialize crate with alr init --bin myproj (use --lib for a library crate)
• Build crate with alr build
• Run program with alr run

Linux

Install GNU Ada compiler, GPRbuild and GDB with apt install gnat gprbuild gdb.

Install Emacs Ada mode from MELPA.

Microsoft Windows

Use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to set up a Linux environment. Then install toolchain as described for Linux.

The following extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio Code are useful.

• Ada & SPARK by AdaCore
• WSL

Links

• Ada Forum
• FSF GNAT the GNU Ada compiler
• GPRbuild and GPR Companion Tools User’s Guide
• GtkAda - bindings to Gtk+, Glib, Cairo, Pango
• The GNU Project Debugger
• Learning
  • Ada-Europe user journal, conference and resources
  • Ada-Lang learning resources and forum
  • Ada Programming tutorial at Wikibooks
  • Introduction to Ada an interactive web tutorial
  • Learn X in Y minutes Where X=Ada
• Testing
  • AUnit unit test framework

Tasks

• Replace Emacs Ada Mode with Ada TS Mode, see https://ada-lang.io/docs/learn/getting-started/editors#emacs
• Command line argument parsing
• Hello world