Re: Prebuilt version of gcc 3.1 with Ada as an additional package for windows

["John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net>]

Stupid question.

The files are all packed up in .tar.gz GZIP archives.

What is an appropriate Windows utility for opening them?  Where can I get
it?

If I actually succeed in getting things working, I'll write up the procedure
and the list of necessary files.

"Sune Falck" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:TxeG8.8178$p56.2336358@newsb.telia.net...
> The mingw project www.mingw.org has made available prebuilt
> gcc 3.1 core, gcc 3.1 Ada, binutils and other support files at
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435
>
> Sune Falck
>
> PS A simple test showed that gcc Ada had problems finding the
> system files - maybe because I had installed in a nonstandard
> location.
>
> Defining ADA_INCLUDE_PATH and ADA_OBJECTS_PATH pointing
> to the library files solked the problem and a simple hello world
> program compiled and run without any problems.
>
> C:\data\msys>set
> ADA_INCLUDE_PATH=c:\data\msys\lib\gcc-lib\mingw32\3.1\adainclude
> C:\data\msys>set
> ADA_OBJECTS_PATH=c:\data\msys\lib\gcc-lib\mingw32\3.1\adalib
> C:\data\msys>PATH c:\data\msys\bin;%path%
> C:\data\msys>gnatmake -v -f atest
>
> GNATMAKE 3.1 (20020501) Copyright 1995-2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> gcc -c atest.adb
> End of compilation
> gnatbind -x atest.ali
> gnatlink atest.ali
>
> C:\data\msys>atest
> Hello from Ada
>
>
>