Re: GNAT on MinGW

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

Michael Bode wrote:

> Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 
>> And if you find the article outdated you can try the "Edit" button ;-).
> 
> I'm not sure if it is outdated. :-(

Once I have a successfull compile I update the page. However anyone who had
some success can record his attempts on the wiki. You can even start new
pages! There is no need to be fully successfull - record as far as you got
so that your knowledge is not lost!

>> Notice:   languages: c,c++!!!
>>
>> No java, no fortran, no ada.
> 
> Even that would be more than what you can get from mingw.org. I wonder
> why.

Both MinGW and Cygwin seemed stalled and new projects with the same aim have
not caught up with them. It seems that the POSIX comunity have lost
interest in Windows. Or it works good enough for corporations. 

>>> 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.
> 
> I think the remarks I cited didn't refer to gnat. And if the situation
> is that bad for C/C++ I would not hold my breath for other languages.

I too feel very sad about the current state of GCC for windows. Even
compiling GCC 4.2.0.xxxxxx on Sun/Solaris was easier - just one shell
script error (on make install in gcc/ada :-( )! Call the command manually
(strangely that works) and uncomment it in the Makefile (so it won't be
called again) and the compile goes thou.

BTW: "Call the command manually instead of inside the make script" often
helps in Cygwin / MinGW as well.
 
Martin

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