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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dcc0aae305ab9198,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com Subject: Gnat for Windows, was Re: NON EXPENSIVE ADA COMPILER Date: 1996/10/06 Message-ID: <538q68$62c@news2.delphi.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 187144808 organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In <3256B1FD.167EB0E7@gdesystems.com> Michael Levasseur wrote: >If Ada 95 will work why don't you try the GNAT ADa95. This is supported >on multiple platforms and is FREE!!! It's a pretty good Ada compiler and Is there in fact any way to get a GNAT that produces Windows 95/NT programs for less then $250? I bought the $50 version and it has no way to use "resources". The docs indicate that I can either buy MS Visual C++ or the $250 version of GNAT from Labtek in order to use menus, dialog boxes, etc in my Windows programs. The $100 ActivAda I had previously bought from Alsys includes the SDK stuff necessary for resources but it's Ada 83. Its resource compiler produces .res files from .rc files, but GNAT seems to need an extra program that produces .rbj files from the .res files. Does the .rbj converter come with Visual C++? Does it come with the $250 version of GNAT? Is it available anywhere else? Alternatively, is there any other Ada 95 compiler which, in a version complete enough to produce real Windows programs, costs less?