Re: GNAT on Win 95

[Andy Wilson <wilsona@logica.com>]

somf wrote:
> 
> 1)  Is the assumption that all Win 95 GNAT ada development will occur from
> the MSDOS emulator command line ?  I wish there was a help capability in
> this emulator.
> 
> 2)  What is the SH.exe file used for ?
> 
> 3) One of the docs is in a TEX format.  What is this and how can I convert
> to something windows 95 apps can understand ?
> 
> 4)  The readme calls for running SETPATH.BAT first,  then suggests cd to
> the examples subdirectory and doing a make.  The make successfully
> compiles the test_cl file but fails in the bind with several errrors.  The
> errors say the many files need to be recompiled.  Mostly, because
> system.ads was modifed, it says.   I tried recompiling the files by hand,
> but I am not sure where the results of these compilations are supposed to
> go.  Is there a global make file ?  Why is this happening ?  Is there
> something else that could be wrong ?
> 
> thanks in advance to anyone that can help with these questions.

Hi.
I tried GNAT301a on Win95 recently too. Whilst I've not used it in earnest 
yet, I found the same problem with the "system.ads" needing recompiling.
To get over this I tried re-"make"-ing the library. 
cd to the "adainclude" directory. There you'll find a makefile. Have a look 
in this and it tells you about recompiling the library and what to do with 
the compiled *.obj etc.. Then just type "make" in this directory. When 
finished,  copy the *.obj and *.ali(? i think - check iwhat it says in the 
makefile) to the lib directory. This worked fine for me.

Andy Wilson
wilsona@logica.com
http://public.logica.com/~wilsona