From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,40509554d579e4f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.germany.com!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed02.chello.at!news.hispeed.ch.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <20251319.nuJCJozhp9@linux1.krischik.com> From: Martin Krischik Subject: Re: GNAT on MinGW Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:29:26 +0100 References: <1172232426.5367.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <6ify8xypj6.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <45e540e5$1@news.post.ch> <45e67b0f$1@news.post.ch> <1253312.cKnQvifT1p@linux1.krischik.com> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@hispeed.ch Organization: hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.73.230.248 (84.73.230.248) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:45:02 +0100 X-Trace: 90ee845e951aef1ec435d29342 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9647 Date: 2007-03-03T11:29:26+01:00 List-Id: Michael Bode wrote: > Martin Krischik 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 And if you find the article outdated you can try the "Edit" button ;-).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 I'm not sure if it is outdated.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 -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com