Re: gnat / win95

[labtek@cs.yale.edu (Tom Griest)]

seaton@bis.net.au (Stephen Eaton) writes:
>G'day Yoav,
>
>>I'm currently runnign gnat 301a on win95
>>and I keep getting 
>>> GCC.EXE: installation problem, cannot exec `C:\gnat301a\cpp.exe': Not 
>>> enough space
>
>>any ideas
>
>I had exactly the same thing.  What I found was that my hard drive had
>something like 30MB free before I tried to compile, then after getting
>the mentioned error message I had about 1-2mb free.  I ended up moving
>my windows 95 swap file to another drive that had heaps (500MB) of
>free space.  Bingo! works OK now.  
>
>Still doesn't explain why >30Mb is needed on compilation.


The problem (as noted before) was very large stack commit values for
several executables.  These are not necessary for most programs, and
so a fix was developed.  You can get the two "fixes" at:

   ftp.cs.yale.edu/pub/gnat/updates/gnat301a


>On another note with the gnat compiler  --- has anyone been able to
>successfully run the adaide and adacaps enviroments with the windows
>95 version ?

The Adaide will run on WinNT, and I would assume on Win95 as well.
You have to change the batch file that runs when a compile is initiated
though.

-Tom