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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,489591d353106d0c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jonas Nygren Subject: Re: Code compatibility of GNAT on Win/NT with other compilers Date: 1996/05/16 Message-ID: <319B6081.59DC@ehs.ericsson.se>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 155140908 references: <4nd3fr$26aq@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> to: michael@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Ericsson Hewlett-Packard Telecommunications AB mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (WinNT; I) Date: 1996-05-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: michael@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de wrote: > > Hi, > > we are currently considering to use GNAT on WindowsNT. One question > that arises in this context is how compatible GNAT is with other > compilers. I have almost no experience with the Microsoft world because > I am a Unix guy. On a Unix machine there is normally only one standard > object format and only one linker and so it has never been a problem > for me to mix different languages. But in the Microsoft world this > seems to be different. Could anybody please shed some light on this. Michael, I, too, am a Unix guy. I run a PC with NT and I run Gnat both on PC/NT and on Unix. In brief I would recommend you to run on Unix, e.g. Linux. NT is OK if you are running, Word, Excel, Netscape, a s o. But if you want a programming environment similar to Unix - it is not possible with NT. I have installed GNU Win32 , see , but it is to little, IMO. If I were to develop Ada code professionally on NT then I'd go for some completely integrated environment, I have seen Alsys' Active Ada mentioned on the net but know nothing of the product. Also, it is a bit unclear to what level Gnat NT is supported. It is still 3.01 and 3.03 was promised a month+ ago but nothing has come out. The final test will be 3.05 on NT. Trouble reporting seems more responsive on Unix versus NT. If I suspect a bug on NT I always run it on Unix before submitting it to report@gnat.com, so that it is submitted as a Unix bug. I hope my very personal views were of some interest to you and other readers. /jonas > > Michael > > PS: If possible please answer via e-mail too because I won't be able > to read the news for the next few days. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --Dipl.-Ing. Michael Paus (Member: Team Ada) > --University of Stuttgart, Inst. of Flight Mechanics and Flight Control > --Forststrasse 86, 70176 Stuttgart, Germany > --Phone: (+49) 711-121-1434 FAX: (+49) 711-634856 > --Email: Michael.Paus@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (NeXT-Mail welcome)