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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: GNAT & Windows programming
Date: 1997/01/09
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In article <32d47a5f.21786842@news.lander.es>, lektu@lander.es (Juanma Barranquero) writes:
> 
> Hi! I'm a newbie in Ada95 (I learnt Ada83 years ago, but I haven't
> used it since 1987 at least), and I'm trying to update my very rusted
> knowledge of it. Problem is, my current programming environment is
> Windows 95. Is it possible to use "GNAT for Windows 95" to compile
> Windows programs, or only character-based ("console") ones?

Yes, although depending on the GNAT version you may have to get
bindings for the Microsoft libraries from elsewhere.  Someone
will be along on this list shortly giving exact version numbers
(I predict).

> If not, is there any Ada95 compiler for Windows relatively
> inexpensive?

I have ObjectAda from Aonix.  There are various prices for various
feature sets, some of which count as inexpensive by any measure
and all of which count as inexpensive by at least some folks' measure.

There are other vendors too.  If you have access to the World
Wide Web, try www.adahome.com for pointers to everything Ada.

Larry Kilgallen