Re: GNAT on MinGW

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Michael Bode wrote:

> Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 
>> No I created a cross compiler for linux. Next step would have been to
>> use that cross compiler to create a native MinGW compiler. But that
>> proved difficult.
>>
>> I have now tried all sorts of tricks and nothing worked out - there
>> was always some show stopper down the line.
> 
> This is all very confusing.

Most Wiki's have a "History" button which will show you when an article was
last edited. That can be helpfull from time to time!

And if you find the article outdated you can try the "Edit" button ;-).

> On http://gnuada.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Install/MS-Windows
> you (was it written by you?) say that "the main problem is: MinGW
> can't compile the gcc 4.1.0 at all." And really the latest version on
> mingw.org is gcc 3.4.5. OTOH there is http://gcc.winports.org/ which
> claims to have gcc 4.1.2 with the following release notes:
> 
> gcc 4.1.2
> 
> technical specs
> host: i386-pc-mingw32
> target: i386-pc-mingw32
> languages: c,c++
> 
> built @ i686 machine running msys 1.0.10 under WinXP Pro SP2

Notice:   languages: c,c++!!!

No java, no fortran, no ada.

> But there are no sources and not much information on who they are and
> what they have done to build gcc 4.1 that I can find. I've also not
> tried it out since I've no Windows @home.
> 
> Ah, there is a forum with a total of 4 postings, one from the MinGW
> project administrator, which discuss a) GPL violation by this project
> and b) general unfitness of the Windows port of gcc 4. Looks like
> there is not much chance for a usable Windows gcc 4 until quite some
> bugs in gcc are fixed.

Remember that AdaCore allways supplies huge diff files with each compiler.
They really work hard to get things going - especially for non POSIX
environments like Windows and VMS. I just which they would not send patched
to trunc only.

Martin

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