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Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:51:54 +0200
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half?
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Simon Wright wrote:

> It certainly seems to be true that, no matter how daft you or I might
> think it, management would prefer to use Windows to develop on.
> 
> I wonder how difficult it is to build GNAT on Windows? I'm pretty sure
> it has to be under MinGW. I did manage after many hours to get PolyORB
> to build under MinGW, but it crashed dismally when used .. in contrast
> to the Linux build, which worked out of the box. Perhaps it would be
> worth a try .. on the other hand, I would like a little bit of a life!

Maybe "Solaris" is the magic word? The new workstations seem comparatively
affordable...