Re: Ada on NT

[Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de>]

 Siegfried Gonzi wrote:
 > 
 > Michal Nowak wrote:
 > 
 > > 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

I think nobody here will do this.
 
 > b) I do not laugh anymore after this installation-nightmare

So what are your actual problems ? Maybe you've got the wrong archive
(e.g. the source distrib).
I've downloaded from here ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.13p/winnt/ both,
the compiler and AdaGide a kind of IDE.
Both are EXE-files which automatically install, and everything runs
fine.
 
 > 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).

For download and install see above.
 
 > Question 2: I want to make the hello-world example

Run AdaGide, type in the "with Text_IO; ...", press "F2" for compile
"F3" for build, "F4" for execute.
 
 > Question 3: It seems before question 2 can be performed I have to
build Ada for NT,
 > okay:

Then maybe you've got the source distribution, not the binary (see link
above).
 
 > 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)

I've written a lot of Windows code, even GUIs. There is no need to run a
DOS command window at all.
 
 > 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).

Forget it, you really don't need it.