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

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

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Progress report:  It apparently works.

Approximate procedure for installing gcc3.1 with the prebuilt GNAT Ada95
compiler
1.  Obtain a dearchiver that knows how to deal with .tar.gz tarballs.  I
used PowerArchiver 7.02.08 from http://www.powerarchiver.com
2.  Download the following tarball from http://www.mingw.org
        mingw-1.0.1-20010726.tar.gz
3.  Download the following tarballs from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435.
        gcc-3_1-core-20020516-1.tar.gz
        gcc-3_1-Ada-20020516-1.tar.gz
        bunutils-2_12_90-20020518-1.tar.gz
        mingw-runtime-2.0-20020430.tar.gz
4.  Create a new MinGW directory: I used c:\mingw.
5.  If you are running Windows 95/98/NT/2000, now is a good time to increase
your environment space allocation.
        Under Windows 95/98, see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q230205 for the gory
details.
        Under Windows NT/2000, see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q158141 for the gory
details.
6.  Add c:\mingw\bin to your path.  Under Windows 98, edit autoexec.bat.
(And you thought Win95 was a new operating system...)
7.  Reboot your PC, to make the environment and path changes operative.
8.  Unpack these tarballs into the new directory, IN THE ORDER LISTED ABOVE.
        mingw-1.0.1-20010726.tar.gz
9.  Verify the basic functionality by typing "gcc -v".  See
http://www.mingw.org for more about this.
10.  Create a C "Hello world" program.  Compile and link it, using "gcc -o
hello hello.c".  Execute it by typing "hello".
11.  Unpack these tarballs into your MinGW directory.
        gcc-3_1-core-20020516-1.tar.gz
        gcc-3_1-Ada-20020516-1.tar.gz
        bunutils-2_12_90-20020518-1.tar.gz
        mingw-runtime-2.0-20020430.tar.gz
12.  Define the symbol ADA_INCLUDE_PATH in autoexec.bat as
c:\mingw\lib\gcc-lib\mingw32\3.1\adainclude
13.  Define the symbol ADA_OBJECTS_PATH in autoexec.bat as
c:\mingw\lib\gcc-lib\mingw32\3.1\adalib
14.  Create an Ada95 "Hello, world" procedure, and compile/link/execute it
using gnatmake.
        gnatmake -v -f atest

"John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net> wrote in message
news:5E094997146C7741.0FB80E038D2768EF.1E05937DD68AE7CE@lp.airnews.net...
> Comment.  I'm running Windows 98 SE (or some such).  Our old DOS friend
> autoexec.bat works for setting environment variables and PATH.  I
initially
> used the old MS-DOS editor to edit autoexec.bat, then I switched to Edwin
> (an Emacs clone from the MIT Scheme distribution).
>
> This is actually looking like it is going to work.
>
> As I type this, I'm pulling down the gcc 3.1 source tarball, just for
> general culture.
>
> As an aside, a friend of mine was looking for a C/C++ toolset.  He's also
> done Ada, back in the days when we were both working at TI Defense.  I
plan
> to send him a copy of the results of all this fun.
>
> "John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net> wrote in message
> news:02D6ADD6175DB7B3.1C5346C846F32263.434342A3404AA72C@lp.airnews.net...
> > Progress report.
> >
> > I pulled down various tarballs (actually, .tar.gz balls), and I pulled
> down
> > PowerArchiver.  I've installed MinGW, and I've done the basic C "Hello,
> > World" exercise.
> >
> > "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote in message
> > news:acdlv1$ovg$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net...
> > >
> > > "Stephen Leake" <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> a �crit dans le
> message
> > news: uptzplhe6.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov...
> > > > > What is an appropriate Windows utility for opening them?  Where
can
> I
> > get
> > > > > it?
> > > >
> > > > WinZip, www.winzip.com, $29 lifetime license (free upgrades).
> > > >
> > > > Cygwin, http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
> > > >     provides command line tar and gzip
> > > >
> > > Or PowerArchiver (http://www.powerarchiver.com), a free WinZip clone
> > >
> > > --
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > >            J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr)
> > > Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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