ADAC-HYBRID-ARM

A wrapper for AdaCore's arm-eabi-gcc, so that it can be hooked up to standard arm-none-eabi toolchain.

Prerequisites

• Install the newest version of qemu-system-arm (this software was developed with QEMU 6.2.50)
• Install arm-eabi-gcc Ada ARM cross-compiler (this software was developed with GNAT Community 2021 20210519)
• Install make, gprbuild and arm-none-eabi-gcc C/C++ ARM crosscompiler

Installation

Execute make to build and test all necessary binaries. You can add build/bin to system PATH for adac to be accessible from any place.

Usage

arm-elf-adac

arm-elf-adac is constructed to mimic a regular c compiler in usage. However, it combines two different compilers, and as such accepts command-line arguments for all of them:

• All arguments prefixed with -Wgnat, are forwarded to arm-eabi-gcc, after stripping the prefix. Please consult arm-eabi-gcc manual for the list of accepted options.
• All arguments prefixed with -gnat are forwarded to arm-eabi-gcc as is. Please consult arm-eabi-gcc manual for the list of accepted options.
• All arguments prefixed with -Wdac, are interpreted by adac. Please consult the list below.
• All other arguments are forwareded to arm-none-eabi-gcc. Please consult arm-none-eabi-gcc manual for the list of accepted options.

Adac accepts the following options:

• keep_ada_main - don't rename _ada_main to main.
• keep_intermediates - don't delete the generated intermediate files: arm assembly and Ada .ali files.

arm-elf-adabind

arm-elf-adabind is called implicitly by gprbuild when building a .gpr based project. In order to configure the project to use both arm-elf-adac and arm-elf-adabind, several options must be added to the project file:

Use arm-elf-adabind for binding:

package Binder is
    for Driver ("Ada")  use "arm-elf-adabind";
end Binder;

Use arm-elf-adac for compilation:

package Compiler is
    for Driver ("Ada") use "arm-elf-adac";

    (... the rest of regular compiler configuration ...)

end Compiler;