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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a073fa836a03b290 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-04 09:02:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CD40884.9000102@qwest.net> From: "Robert R. Beaver" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ? References: <3CD1FFC5.4050607@qwest.net> <5ee5b646.0205030057.7cb47a2d@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 09:12:52 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.100.8.190 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 1020528128 65.100.8.190 (Sat, 04 May 2002 11:02:08 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 11:02:08 CDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23540 Date: 2002-05-04T09:12:52-07:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > "Robert R. Beaver" wrote in message news:<3CD1FFC5.4050607@qwest.net>... > >>Is it posible? >>IF so what are the steps to do so? >> > > You will have to build a GCC cross-compiler. If you don't already know how > to do that, then probably this would be a pretty steep learning curve. > First you need to just study the basic GCC build process and build > GNAT from sources. The Windows target would make this particularly > tricky, since Windows is maximally uncooperative for such tasks. I have > not ever heard of anyone wanting to do a cross with windows as a target > before, so I doubt there is any prior experience here, especially from > FreeBSD *to* Win32. > Would It be better to use jgnat for cross platform devlopement? I am new to Ada and I am looking forward to learning to develope mission critical code. Most of my code are done with interpreters (forth,tcl and a little python)