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,a75122bb4b946b5c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Dennison Subject: Re: GNAT and Windows 95 Date: 1996/09/04 Message-ID: <322E2750.DDC@iag.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 178544604 references: <322C7208.53C@rtsnet.ru> <50je5k$2ka@cf01> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: The Dennison Family mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) Date: 1996-09-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > > "Wasiliy W. Molostoff" wrote: > > >Perhaps anybody can explain situation with Win32 GNAT porting? > >I have seen Cygnus GNU-Win32 Project compiler + libs + binaries > >and I think that this is a best place for new versions of GNAT. > >Does any body make any efforts in such way? > > Well GNAT for Win32 is not up to date because ACT is working > on a new distribution. Labtek handles the Windows 95/NT port of GNAT. Their web page is at http://ftp.cs.yale.edu/pub/gnat/labtek/index.html > 1) the Cygnus Win32 GCC has almost all librairies to do Win32 > programming (libkernel32.a libgdi32.a libwsock32.a libglu.a libglaux.a > libgdbm.a libuser32.a libvfw32.a libodbc32.a and many many more...) > > So this version with the Win32Ada binding will enable you to do Win32 > programming without having to buy the SDK or VC++. > This statement may be a little misleading. Cygnus is NOT building interfaces to Microsoft's Win32 API. In this respect, the gnu-win32 project seems to be a bit of a misnomer. To quote from the gnu-win32 web page at http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ - The second part of the project (which we are currently in) is developing a C library that is enough for GNU programs (fileutils, sh-utils, textutils, bash, make) to be compiled on a Win32 system without any modification to those programs. From their point of view, a Windows NT box is no different than any other Unix box. Cygnus currently suggests that folks who want to do "native Win32 programming" install Scott Christley's windows32api package available at: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/windows32api-0.1.2.tar.gz I don't know what state this is in, or how well it matches up with the GNAT Ada bindings to the Win32 API - http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/source-code/bindings/win32ada/win32ada.html which require the Microsoft SDK. -- T.E.D. email - mailto:dennison@iag.net homepage - http://www.iag.net/~dennison