Re: free Ada compiler ?

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

"hongxun lee" <lee.1801@osu.edu> wrote in message news:<a1vm3b$8g8$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>...

>  So 'gnat-3.13p-i686-pc-linux-gnu-bin' is definitely  
> *not*  for Cygwin? Thanks

That is correct. We did try building with Cygwin at one
point, but abandoned this for three reasons:

a) there were significant stability problems in Cygwin at
the time. This may of course have improved.

b) the license at the time (I do not know if this has
changed) was not suitable, since for something this basic,
we really wanted something with the modified GPL (at least
at the time, as I say it may have changed, Cygwin was under
the GPL, and to use it in non-Free Software, you had to
buy the proprietary version). Given that EVERY program
uses this library, we saw this as too restrictive.

c) We found that mingwin was lighter and worked better,
and did not have a license problem.



Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies