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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:16:59 -0500
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Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com> writes:

> On 22-Mar-14 12:28, Stephen Leake wrote:
>> Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Thursday, 20 March 2014 19:28:48 UTC, Shark8  wrote:
>>>> On 19-Mar-14 14:04, Alan Browne wrote:
>>>>> On 2014.03.18, 19:23 , Shark8 wrote:
>>>
>>>>> 1. Delphi?   Why not in Ada?
>>>>
>>>> Answered upthread: mostly possible issues in licensing and my rotten
>>>> luck getting DB bindings to compile/link correctly.
>>>
>>> Really? You couldn't get postgres-ada to compile? Really easy. If
>>> you're talking gnatcoll, then yeah, that's a complete bitch, don't
>>> think anyone's been too successful there.
>>
>> I use gnatcoll for db access. There are quirks, but it works quite well.
>
> I could never get gnatcoll to work; it took a /lot/ of time/effort to
> get it so it would compiler and link... and even then it wouldn't work
> when I tried to use it.
>
> I'm going to hazard a guess that you were using a linux-system, yes?
> (I'm on a Windows system, and the building process [IMO] seems to be
> overly dependent on the OS.)

I use debian, red hat, and windows; and both gnatpro and gnat gpl.

Never had a problem building and installing gnatcoll.

I do have cygwin installed on Windows; I'm not sure if that's the key or
not. 

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-- Stephe