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==Preface==
One of the first things people ask on the Ada IRC channel on Freenode is "Can Ada be used for OS development?" to which the answer is a resounding '''yes'''. But there are 2 problems:
# The people asking this question are new to Ada, and
# GNAT is not the easiest compiler to build.
Therefore these users don't understand what it takes to get the compiler into a useable state.
As you may have seen from other bare bones tutorials on this site, they state that you must have a compiler built which can handle [[ELF]] files, the usual way is by building GCC which targets i386-elf or some other similar architecture. The problem here is that GNAT will not build for these targets out of the box without messing with it's makefile.
==GNAT and the Ada runtime system (RTS)==
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