Win NT linker for GNAT

Win NT linker for GNAT

[Robert S. White]

  There have been a few posts recently in comp.lang.ada and 
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc about the lack of a linker for NT without
buying Visual C.  Just to set the record straight there is a linker 
supplied with  NT Workstation 3.5 that works with the Labtek GNAT 
Ada2.03a. The following  is a dump of where to find it on the 
distribution CDROM.  I acknowledge this may not continue in future 
NT updates.  But please, Microsoft, make it  so......  

  Another problem is that the Labtek GNAT distribution assumes the 
existence of Windows NT Visual C header files and libraries.  That is a 
tougher nut to  Hcrack!
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Volume in drive x is WORKSTATION 
Directory of  x:\SUPPORT\LINKER\16BIT\*.* 
9/04/94   8:07         362,496  LINK.EXE 
9/04/94   8:07             188  README.TXT
       362,684 bytes in 2 files and 2 dirs 364,544 bytes allocated

LINK.EXE is an update to the 16-bit Linker provided with Microsoft 
VisualC++ v1.5 for Windows 3.1.  It fixes a known problem with the 
existing  16-bit linker running on Windows NT 3.5. 

Directory of  x:\SUPPORT\LINKER\32BIT\*.* 
9/04/94   8:07         385,536  LINK.EXE 
9/04/94   8:07             183  README.TXT
       385,719 bytes in 2 files and 2 dirs 389,120 bytes allocated

LINK.EXE is an update to the 32-bit Linker provided with Microsoft 
VisualC++ v1.1 for Windows NT 3.1.  It fixes a known problem with 
that 32-bit linker running on Windows NT 3.5.

Re: Win NT linker for GNAT

[Tom Griest]

WHITER@crpl.cedar-rapids.lib.ia.us writes:
>  There have been a few posts recently in comp.lang.ada and 
>comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc about the lack of a linker for NT without
>buying Visual C.  Just to set the record straight there is a linker 
>supplied with  NT Workstation 3.5 that works with the Labtek GNAT 
>Ada2.03a. The following  is a dump of where to find it on the 
>distribution CDROM.  I acknowledge this may not continue in future 
>NT updates.  But please, Microsoft, make it  so......  
>

We are also working on getting the GNU "ld" to work on WinNT
and Win95.  (BTW, GNAT-2.03/NT does run on the Win95 beta!, 
Also, Gnat-2.04 has been built and is being tested in-house.  
It should be available at ftp.cs.yale.edu/pub/gnat and perhaps 
NYU next week.)

>  Another problem is that the Labtek GNAT distribution assumes the 
>existence of Windows NT Visual C header files and libraries.  That is a 
>tougher nut to  Hcrack!

We are working on this as well.  Can't say exactly when this
will all be worked out, but hopefully by mid-summer. 
Certainly before Win95 is released.  :-)

Tom Griest
LabTek Corp.