Visual Studio, Ada Language Server, macOS

If you’re using VSCode on a Mac with Apple silicon (an M-series chip) you will probably have noticed that Ada code formatting doesn’t work.

This is thought to be because of an issue with the aarch64-apple-darwin compiler. It’s stated that the problem doesn’t occur if the Ada Language Server is compiled for the Intel (x86_64) architecture.

Alire on macOS, revisited

This note covers some of the considerations that’ll apply when running Alire on macOS.

Libadalang, Alire, and macOS

Background

This exercise was prompted by the need for Scripted Testing to be supported by – as far as possible – code generation. The need is for the public or interfacing view of a supporting part (domain) of a system to be able to log calls made to it and to provide values on calls to it, using a scripting mechanism.

Building GCC 12.2.0 on Ventura for aarch64

These are notes on building GCC 12.2.0 and GNAT tools for Apple silicon.

There were two main problems:

• the base package was built on an Intel machine (lockheed - named after Shadowcat’s companion dragon), running Monterey (macOS 12).
• the build machine, an M1 mac Mini (temeraire - named after Naomi Novik’s dragon) was by this time running Ventura (macOS 13), but I wanted to make sure that users could continue to run on Monterey.