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# Ada4Hurd

## Introduction

Ada4Hurd provides tools and examples to ease Ada development in Hurd. It is at an early stage.

### ada2def

  * It is based on the [ASIS](http://libre.adacore.com/tools/gnat-gpl-edition/) standard
  * It analyse an Ada specification and generates some .defs file

### def2ada

  * Using [opentoken](http://stephe-leake.org/ada/opentoken.html) it analyse a .defs file
    * it can generate server skeleton
    * it can generate a client library for easy connection to the server

### xmladafs

  * Mainly a translation of xmlfs in Ada
    * write capabilities development is undergoing
    * use [xmlada](http://libre.adacore.com/tools/xmlada/)

### hello

  * Hello World example translated in Ada

### netfs_base

  * Mainly a dummy translator to understand netfs mechanisms
  * [[Some results of netfs experimentation|documentation/netfs_ada_results]]

## Where to find the code

  * Ada4Hurd is a [sourceforge](https://sourceforge.net/projects/ada4hurd/) based project
  * Mercurial is used as DVCS

    $ hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/ada4hurd/code ada4hurd-code

## Build the code

  * Install the build dependencies as root

    $ apt install gnat libopentoken4-dev libxmlada5-dev libasis2014-dev

  * Build

    $ cd ada4hurd-code
    $ make

  * Play with xmladafs

    $ make trans_on

  * Run netfs tests
    * In netfs\_base directory

    $ make trans\_dbg\_on