Re: Ada on NT

[Siegfried Gonzi <siegfried.gonzi@kfunigraz.ac.at>]

Michal Nowak wrote:

> >I have downloaded (because it is not possible to find a Gnat-Ada for
> >SunOS 8) Gnat-Ada for Windows NT, but is this a joke or what should I do
> >with this distribution.
>
> I found it very useful and functional. What a joke? Tell us all,
> we will laugh with you if it is good enough.

There are two possibilities:

a) You can laugh, because you think I am a fool

b) I do not laugh anymore after this installation-nightmare

>
>
> Try to start to like GNAT, it is really nice, useful, fuctional, etc....
> It will not make yourself a whole  program, but it is programmer's task, isn't it?

I would really like to start programming in Ada ( at home I have installed Ada83 for
the Macintosh and what I have seen thus far has been not too bad at all; it seems Ada
is well suited for numerical analysis; as an academic user I use programming only for
that sort of tasks).

But it seems that the Windows version (no, I plan not to start to install Linux/BSD; I
do not have enough time to foster these user-unfriendly systems) impedes my plan:

Question 1: After downloading the Gnat-compiler and unzipping it I have installed it
(administrator rights have been required).

Question 2: I want to make the hello-world example

Question 3: It seems before question 2 can be performed I have to build Ada for NT,
okay:

Question 4: (an citation from the Win32 binding section):

-Open a DOS command window.
-Run the SETPATH.BAT command from the directory where GNAT is installed.
- \win32ada\setpath (first edit \win32ada\setpath.bat if you are using gnat 3.08)
- cd \win32ada\src
- copy gnat\*.*
-gnatmake withall (ignore error messages at link time)  (Optionally)


My windows experience is dated back to 1995 and I am not sure what setpath.bat is, but
this script is not available (with the Gnat distribution).


S. Gonzi