Re: AdaGide on Windows

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier)]

John Foley:

> gnatbind -x hello.ali
> program: Cannot find: gnatbind.exe.ali
> gnatmake: *** bind failed
> Done--error detected.
> 
> 
> I guessed that these errors had to do with environment settings
> so I played around with the dialog in
> Tools | GNAT options in current directory ...
> 
> All of my efforts thus far have failed
> so I turn to Usenet, any help would
> be greatly appreciated.

This is a "long name with spaces" problem: gcc is confused by
spaces; the remedy consists in modifying the registry. Hereafter
a bug report sent to ACT (this is about GNAT 3.13p):

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At installation some registry entries for pathes with some long
names cause a confusion for gnatmake: the path "c:\program files\gnat"
contains an space. Sometimes, from AdaGIDE or command line (CMD), 
gnatmake stops at binding with the message "program: cannot find
gnatbind.exe.ali". If you replace the entries with the short name
(e.g. "c:\progra~1\gnat") everything is OK.

The "confusing" keys are ROOT in
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ada Core Technologies\GNAT

and GNATCOM in
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ada Core Technologies\GNAT\Standard Libraries