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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/01/15
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In article <77mavc$6vf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> In article <77l9dt$a8n$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>   dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> > Fourtunately Ada compilers for the PC platform do *not*
> > exhibit this behavior. However they do tend to have the
> > drawback that you still have to buy Visual C++ to do
> > serious development. Microsoft doesn't make their linker
> > available any other way, and noone's ballsy enough to
> > reverse engineer it.
>
> This is misleading information. GNAT for NT does indeed
> provide a loader that can build and communicate with DLL's
> built by the Microsoft linker, and the use of the Microsoft
> linker is not required at all for building Ada programs
> using GNAT.

Yes. But my understanding w/ Gnat is that the Win32 spec files are under the
Microsoft copyright, and are techinicly not supposed to be used by anyone who
does not have VC++ installed. Also, does Gnat's linker allow linking to VC++
object files?

I believe Aonix got around this issue by licensing (sounds so much nicer than
"bribing") the linker from Microsoft. Last I heard, Rational's solution was to
make VisualC++ a "System Requirement".

T.E.D.

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