Re: Installing GNAT GPL 2010 on Vista

["Paul" <pcas1986@bigpond.net.au>]

Peter C. Chapin wrote:

> On 2010-06-26 20:09, mahdert wrote:
> 
> > I just installed GNAT GPL on windows 7 and it works fine.
> 
> Did you do that installation as an "ordinary" user or did you run the
> installer as an administrator?
> 
> I'm just asking because I anticipate getting a new Windows 7 machine
> in a couple of weeks and of course one of the first things going on
> it will be GNAT GPL 2010. :)
> 
> Peter


I had the same problem as others reported with the HKLM (registry mod?)
error and used the "Run as administrator" option from the right mouse
button popup menu.  Seemed strange to me as I'm the only user for this
system and my user id has administrator status.

My biggest problem was getting the linker to work with GTKADA libraries
and I recall I had much the same problem with GPL2009.  I still had my
2009 GNAT install and I returned to that and things worked fine.  This
morning I tried again with the GPL2010 version and it all worked.  So
I'm not sure exactly what the problem was but I suggest installing GNAT
first and then rebooting before installing the other components.

The only other problem I had was GPS finding the GTKADA.GPR file.  In
the 2009 version I only needed "with "GTKADA.GPR"" in the project file
but in the 2010 version I needed to provide the full path to
GTKADA.GPR.  In my case it was "with
"e:\gnat\2010\lib\gnat\gtkada.gpr"".

Perhaps I've corrupted something in the GPS configuration files having
two versions installed.

I haven't tried the win32 component because my current project doesn't
use it.  While I was trying to get the GTKADA linking issue solved I
fiddled with the environments paths and other settings but in the end I
only needed the GNAT bin directory in the PATH environment variable.
This was the same for my GPL2009 install.


Paul

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