GNU Ada 95 Database Developement Environment - (GNADE)

Version 0.9e

J. Pfeifer / M.Erdmann

30.3.2001

Content

This release provides a thin binding to the ODBC interfaces, an embedded SQL translator which processes Ada 95 sources with embedded SQL, some basic documentation and some samples demonstrating the basic functionality. The release is targted for Linux and Windows NT Systems.

The software of this release is contained in the following files:

File Contents
gnade-src-0.9e.tar.gz Complete GNADE distribution GNU compressed tar file
gnade-src-0.9e.zip Complete GNADE distribution as ZIP file.

Contact

Bug Reports http://sourcefore.net/projects/gnade M.Erdmann
GNADE Discussions http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/mailman/listinfo/gnade-dev Florian Weimer
Project Page http://gnade.sourceforge.net/ M.Erdmann
Dev. Coordination Michael.Erdmann@snafu.de M.Erdmann

Authors

The following authors have contributed to this release:

Jürgen Pfeifer juergen.pfeifer@gmx.net>
Michael Erdmann Michael.Erdmann@snafu.de
Sune Falck sunef@hem.passagen.se
Florin Weimer Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE

License

The GNU Public License (GPL) applies with the following extension to all software components in this release

As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from GNADE Ada units, or you link GNADE Ada units or libraries with other files to produce an executable, these units or libraries do not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU Public License.

The documentation has been put under the Free GNU Documentation License.

Fixed Problems

Bug Ref. Short Description Comments
411143 configure does not fail. The configure.in script has been updated and aborts if the library check failes or one of the GNAT components is missing.

Known Problems

Bug Ref. Short Description Comments
411141 Missing ";" for "EXEC SQL DECLARE DB01 D This problem may be bypassed by putting a semicolon in the source code.

The documentation is only distributed as HTML format, because the pdf files generated by docbook are faulty.

Installation

The installation of this software requires the following components:

Component Version Source
gzip
unzip
zip
tar
autoconf*1 2-13-9
make 3.79.1 GNU
gnat 1.13p GNU
gawk GNU

Note 1:

autconf is only required on Linux/Unix Systems for windows a special set of makefiles is provided.

In order to install and compile the distribution under Unix in your working directory, perform the following steps:

$ gunzip -c gnade-src-linux-gnu-<version>.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ cd gnade-src-linux-gnu-<version>
$ ./configure <dbname>
$ make clean
$ make all

For window users a zip file is provided. In order to install perform the following steps:

> unzip gnade-src-linux-gnu-<version>.zip
> cd gnade-src-linux-gnu-<version>/win32
> make 
                                   
This will build the gnade software on your system.