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-Thread: 103376,807ea75fdd8baa41 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!posts.news.sonic.net!nnrp0.nntp.sonic.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4d76c78f$0$22138$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> From: R Tyler Croy Subject: Re: Some questions on packaging Ada code Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Date: 09 Mar 2011 00:19:27 GMT Organization: Sonic.Net NNTP-Posting-Date: 09 Mar 2011 00:19:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: c1faa475.news.sonic.net X-Trace: DXC=8gcAAcD1DWa localhost@example.org wrote: > Hello all! Is it possible to generate an executable using gcc-ada and > ncurses that doesn't have any dependencies? I'm thinking about providing an > application to people that don't have ada or maybe even gcc installed and > certainly not ncurses. I have Linux as my development system. If the answer > to this question is yes then my next question would be can I generate a > standalone Windows executable from Linux easily enough or should I take the > source over to Windows somehow and build it there. Thanks for your help. You would certainly need to either cross-compile for Windows or build on Windows directly. Windows and Linux have different executable and library formats, so even if the Ada code is portable between the platforms, the libraries and runtimes won't be -- - R. Tyler Croy -------------------------------------- Code: http://github.com/rtyler