Overview

AIDE, meaning HELP in french, is an acronym for Ada Instant Development Environment.

AIDE has been created to offer a Windows Ada development environment using exclusively free and multi-platform tools.

AIDE is able to create free or business multi-platform softwares, for text modes, graphic modes and for the internet too.

AIDE is intented to education and development. It is usuable by several differents programmers since references and environment are saved in seperate directories.

AIDE comes with three differents development environments : a general purpose IDE Emacs based (Glide), a Ada oriented graphic IDE (GPS) or even a console (MSys, Bash compatible).

AIDE also comes with a multilingual Texinfo based documentation toolchain able to generate help files (HTML) and user's manual (PDF) from a single source file.

AIDE is unique by its licence, its integration and its seamless system integration :

• All the tools needed are free, integrated and already configured ;
• AIDE is immediately useable after installation ;
• No file in any system directory ;
• No environment variables created or modified outside AIDE.

AIDE use Ada libre software technology from AdaCore, before the shift of that technology in pure GPL (historically, the licence was GMGPL, LGPL alike). AIDE is then the last incarnation of a full free technology, even allowing commercial software production.

The main components used are :

• GNAT 3.15p, GtkAda 2.2.0, GPS 2.1.0,  mSys 1.0.8 ;
• upx 1.22, ucl 1.01 ;
• gs 7.05, a2ps 4.13, psutils 1.17, file 4.03.

To use AIDE, you need to download aide-1.03.zip (160 Mo and launch setup program. As a companion archive (not mandatory) aide-src-1.03.zip (139 Mo) is a huge full source end user softwares and packages repository. One can even find five OS or software for 8 bits microcontrollers.

aide-en-1.03.pdf : User's manual (partially translated, help needed).

aide-pres-fr-2004.pdf :  AIDE slides for RMLL 2004 at Bordeaux, France (in french).

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I warmly thanks the Ada community.