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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e994501f4ce77c5e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-14 19:51:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: free Ada compiler ? Date: 14 Jan 2002 19:51:56 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0201141951.43f36960@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1011066716 29442 127.0.0.1 (15 Jan 2002 03:51:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jan 2002 03:51:56 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18923 Date: 2002-01-15T03:51:56+00:00 List-Id: "hongxun lee" wrote in message news:... > 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