Re: Can anyone build AWS on Windows?

[David Botton <david@botton.com>]

I am by no means a newcomer to Ada or Ada on Windows (I was the principal author of Ada's modern binding to Windows and COM / .NET technologies...) So don't feel bad.

It would have been trivial to have just tar balled the already built AWS and use a simple batch script to copy the prebuilt AWS for the Win32 platform.

I plan on focusing the next few weeks still on getting Gnoga to 1.0 status, so I can't spend time on binary builds yet. I mainly wanted to make sure that the Gnoga had no path issues, etc. once compiled and clearly it works well on Windows (with the exception of Jeremiah's build but not sure why yet).

So, Given the difficulties and since Gnoga is the "killer app" Ada needs to gain traction among application developers (the overwhelming majority of programmers that Ada has failed to even scratch at on their radars), I'll see about doing a Gnoga for Windows binary install with a single package of Gnat, AWS, Sqlite3 and MySQL client libs.

I'll start another thread on the "killer app" tonight. If you haven't "gotten" why Gnoga is the killer App for Ada, I hope that thread will help you "get it" :)

David Botton