Re: What is the best source of GNAT for Win32?

[Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com>]

Steve wrote:

> I have been using the distributions:
> 
>   gnat-3.15p-nt.exe
>   gnatwin-3.15p-nt.exe
> 
> Which I downloaded from cs.nyu.edu when they were new.
> 
> I see that gcc-ada-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz is available from mingw.org.
> 
> Questions:
>   Should I consider using this new version?

Depends: It is quite a good alternative for those who know how tar works and
are not affrait of complex installs.

>   Is this the only thing I need to install, or do I need
> gcc-core-3.4.2-20040915-1.tar.gz as well?

You need a lot more:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Ada:Installing#MinGW

>   What do I use in place of the gnatwin package?
>   The original distributions had nice installers that set everything up
>   for
> me, how do I go about setting up the new environment?

You have to download a lot of files and install them all seperadly

> The thing that raised the question for me is the new release of GPS (which
> is the first version I have successfully been able to use).  The project
> wizard likes to insert directives that gnat 3.15p doesn't know how to
> handle.  I can just delete them from the project file, but it would be
> nice to not have to.

Yes, you can just delete them.

Martin
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