From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,aeabd97bac159c8f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: MinGW and AdaGIDE References: <42B15F8D.28A886A3@alfred-hilscher.de> In-Reply-To: <42B15F8D.28A886A3@alfred-hilscher.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <%fqse.5646$NX4.4752@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 02:07:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.240.241.147 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1118974075 4.240.241.147 (Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:07:55 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:07:55 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11437 Date: 2005-06-17T02:07:55+00:00 List-Id: Alfred Hilscher wrote: > > AdaGide looks for the path > > "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ada Core Technologies\GNAT" > > and expects there a key named "ROOT" which is a string containing the > path where GNAT is installed (e.g. "C:\GNAT"). > > So if you create the ROOT-key there it should work. Uppercase/Lowercase > and spaces are significant. Thanks. I got a similar reply from Martin Carlisle to a private e-mail. I guess what was throwing me off was the use of "key". In regedit, a key is a folder in the left pane. In the right pane are values, which have a name and content. So in this terminology, I need the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ada Core Technologies\GNAT and a value named ROOT. I built that and it works fine. > Btw: How did you install GNAT? This keys should be created during > installation. I installed MinGW, which installs GNAT, in c:\MinGW\bin. -- Jeff Carter "I blow my nose on you." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 03