Re: Mixing Cygnus & Gnat compilers on the same machine

["Gerhard Häring" <gerhard.nospam@bigfoot.de>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> I've got a version of the GNU compiler installed on a PC. This is a compiler
> supplied by Cygnus and compiles C/C++ to a MIPS embedded processor. I would
> like to install the GNAT compiler for the WinNT/PC platform as well.
> However, I really hesitate since I fear there will be Registry changes or
> collisions on directories or search paths or similar problems that will kill
> my Cygnus gcc installation. I could find this out the hard way - install
> GNAT and see what broke - or I could try the easy way first. Has anybody
> done anything similar to this? Is there an easy way to have both compilers
> resident on the same machine and not turn my life into a living hell for the
> next week or two?

I have both the GNAT 3.13p compiler and a Cygnus compiler installed.
There is one only thing you must not forget: Whichever compiler you want
to use, put it at the front of the PATH. I have Cygnus GCC at the front
of the PATH. If I want to use GNAT, I have to do

SET PATH=D:\ADA\GNAT\BIN;%PATH% or
export PATH=//d/Ada/GNAT/bin:$PATH

depending on which shell I happen to use. Everything is working fine
then :-)

Gerhard
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