AdaCore Upgrades GNATbench for Wind River WorkbenchNew platforms and features benefit Ada developers on Wind River WorkbenchNEW YORK and PARIS, September 21, 2010 – Embedded Systems Conference Boston NEW YORK and PARIS – Embedded Systems Conference BostonAdaCore, a leading supplier of Ada development tools and support services, today announced a major update to, the Ada plug-in that brings the advantages of AdaCore’s GNAT Pro toolset to Wind River’s Workbench integrated development environment for embedded systems running VxWorks. The latest version of, is now available as part of the recent GNAT Pro 6.3.2 release, and is supported on Wind River Workbench 3.1 / 3.2, hosted on Windows, Linux, and Solaris.“AdaCore is one of Wind River's strategic partners, and our business relationship goes back many years,” said Robert Dewar, AdaCore President and CEO. “Maintaining this relationship is an ongoing process, it involves making critical contributions to our joint technology and enhancing our products to meet customers’ growing needs. Our new version of GNATbench meets both these goals.”“We’ve introduced support for significant new Wind River platforms as well as for a new version of an existing major platform,” said Dr. Patrick Rogers, GNATbench Project Lead. “These platforms address the application domains within which Ada is most advantageous. We've also enhanced our integration with the Wind River project builder and replaced the underlying Ada compilation engine.”GNATbench 2.4.1 now supports three new Wind River platforms: VxWorks 653, version 2.3; VxWorks Cert, version 6.6.2; and VxWorks MILS, version 2.1.
1 Starting Wind River Workbench. To start Wind River Workbench IDE (Integrated Development Environment) select from menu Applications menu → Development → Wind River Workbench.The following figure will show up asking us to choose the workspace. The workspace is the place, where your projects will be stored.
In addition, GNATbench now supports VxWorks 6.8 (General Purpose Platform 3.8) and Workbench 3.2. Tutorials for these new platforms are now provided, as well as new tutorials for building shared libraries.GNATbench now uses the Wind River default 'flexible' managed build type for all new projects. This build type allows only those directories actually containing code to be processed during a build, which is therefore simpler and more efficient. The deprecated 'standard' managed builds are still supported for existing GNATbench projects, and a project conversion wizard provides the option to convert them to use the new build type.This new version of GNATbench uses GPRbuild, the AdaCore multi-language builder, when building the Ada portion of a Workbench project. As such, it can also compile code written in other languages, if required.
Equally important, GPRbuild is the current and future AdaCore builder technology, replacing the older gnatmake toolset.“Wind River adds new features and functionality to each new version of Workbench based on customer demand,” said Chip Downing, Director of Aerospace and Defense at Wind River.
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