Re: What do I need to write a Windows program with Ada?

["Bob Rosen" <bobrosen@zipcon.net>]

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Bob Rosen

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> "Vincent Smeets" <No@Spam.org> wrote in message
> news:3e75e88a$0$4088$4d4ebb8e@read.news.de.uu.net...
> > Hallo,
> >
> > I know how to write a program with Ada and how to use X-Window (with
> Motif)
> > for Unix. Now I have a program (smal and non-commercial) that I want to
> port
> > from Unix to a Windows (98 or 2000) environment and give it a
Windows-GUI.
> > It will use a menu, an explorer tree and some labels and buttons. The
only
> > problem is that I have no idea about programming for the Windows
> > environment.
> >
> > What do I need to be able to write a program in Ada for Windows?
> > -   Compiler
> >     I have GNAT 3.15p installed.
> >
> > -   Description of a Windows API
> >     What APIs are there, what is the difference and where do I get a
> > description? Are there different levels like Xlib, Xt, Athena and Motif
in
> > Unix?
> >
> > -   Where do I get a binding for a windows API?
> >     GNAT comes with Win32Ada. Is that usable or are there other bindings
> > that are easyer to use? I have heard that MFC is object-oriented for
C++.
> Is
> > there an object-oriented binding for Ada?
> >
> > -   Do I need an C or C++ development environment for the Ada binding?
> >     Does the binding require some special libraries that are not
generaly
> > available with Windows?
> >
> > -   Books
> >     Is there a book you can recommend to read? I have started to read a
> book
> > about using MFC with C++ (from Microsoft Press). It gives me an idea
about
> > programming for Windows, but I can't test anything because it requires
> > Visual C++ which I don't have.
> >
> > -   Do I miss something?
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions,
> > Vincent
> >
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