c2ada

Introduction

c2ada is a translator from C to Ada95. It is meant to be an aid in porting C programs to Ada.

On 2015-02-03, Mike Quentel imported the Sourceforge project C2Ada to GitHub.com as c2ada with the intent of debugging and enhancing the software.

Background and Origin of c2ada

• Website at http://c2ada.sourceforge.net/c2ada.html

• The code for c2ada (originally Pascal-cased as "C2Ada") at Sourceforge is licensed as "Public Domain"

  • The version here at GitHub is re-licensed as MIT type of licence.

• Mark Schimmel created cbind. Randy Hudson and Mitch Gart created C2Ada based on cbind.

• In 2007, Nasser Abbasi ported C2Ada to Linux. Jeffrey Creem created the Sourceforge project. (Many thanks to Nasser and Jeffrey, and everyone else that contributed to c2ada on Sourceforge).

• Originally hosted at SourceForge, with contributions from jcreem, krischik, nmabbasi, simonjwright

• From the original C2Ada notes at SourceForge:

  • "port to linux by Nasser Abbasi"

  • "see http://12000.org/my_notes/ada/index.htm"

Getting Started

• Prerequisites
  • Python 2.x
  • gperf
  • Berkley Yacc (byacc)

1. Optionally fork, then clone c2ada
2. cd to the root directory of c2ada and modify PYTHON_VER in setup as needed.
3. Run make

• Expected result: creation of c2ada executable.