Re: MinGW issues with gnat

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Yannick Duchêne writes on comp.lang.ada:
> Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com> a écrit:
>> I downloaded MinGW yesterday. The gcc compiler/linker works fine for
>> C code but when I tried to run gnat (or any of the gnat utilities) I
>> got  this:
>>
>> procedure entry point GetProcessID could not be located in KERNAL32.dll
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Running on an old Window 2000 box.
>
> All GNAT versions later than GNAT 3.15p, were compatible with Windows
> NT (or like) kernels. Prior to Windows XP, Windows NT and other
> Windows version were different things. I guess that may be source of
> the failure.

Even though it's been a long time since I had any interest in Windows, I
do remember that Windows 2000 is a version of Windows NT (specifically,
it is Windows NT 5.0; XP is 6.0; Vista is 6.1 and 7 is 7).

The problem is simply that GetProcessID was introduced only in Windows
XP with SP1 and Windows Server 2003 [1].

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683215%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Three solutions then:
- upgrade to XP SP1 or later
- downgrade the compiler
- upgrade to GNU/Linux or a BSD :)

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.