Re: Trouble getting started with GNAT for Win95/NT

[Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Matthew Kennedy wrote:
> 
> I've been using GNAT for DOS and now I would like to try out GNAT for
> Win95/NT - I use Win95. However when I install it and try to compile any
> of my creations, I get this error (by the way, I included the specific
> example 'state.adb' as an attachment):

This compiles and links fine on my installation of GNAT 3.09 for Windows
95.

> 2. Environment variables set:
> 
> ADA_INCLUDE_PATH=C:\USR\LOCAL\ADAINCLUDE
> ADA_OBJECTS_PATH=C:\USR\LOCAL\LIB\GCC-LIB\I386-PC-CYGWIN32\2.7.2\ADALIB

I don't have these set; try without?

> PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\DOS;C:\USR\BIN;C:\USR\LOCAL\LIB\GCC-LIB\I386-PC-CYGWIN32\2.7.2\;C:\USR\EMACS-19.34\BIN

You shouldn't need ...\i386-pc-cygwin\2.7.2 in your path, but I don't
know why it would hurt.

> 
> 3. Things I've thought of: In my DOS installation, I noticed that my
> ADA_OBJECTS_PATH (which has all the .ALI file in it) also had .O files
> as well - my Win95 GNAT installation only has .ALI files in the
> ADA_OBJECTS_PATH. Have I forgoten to download an archive full of .O
> files? Also is my compilation command correct (gnatmake state.adb)?

I'm not sure, but I suspect all the .O files are now in libgnat.a, in
the 2.7.2 directory; make sure that's there.

> Thank you all,
> Matt.

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for directions).

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- Stephe