Re: Can anyone build AWS on Windows?

[Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com>]

On 10/3/2014 9:27 AM, Pascal Obry wrote:
> Le mercredi 01 octobre 2014 à 23:13 -0700, Shark8 a écrit :
>> Compiling AWS is a pain; IMO, it's stupid to make a library that needs a
>> non-native build system/environment (Cygwin, in this case) when you have
>> such a great language as Ada... one that's *supposed* to be good at
>> porting between platforms --
>
> That's easy to say, but please look at AWS code! The needs for a
> MingW/Cygwin environment is to launch the command, compile the static
> and dynamic libraries and install the stuff.

I understand this -- but that we're basically forced to devolve down to 
such crap as make is my gripe. Ada's had pretty good ideas about 
integrating w/ systems even in `83 [the library system, for example] 
that it's astounding to me that there's little to nothing for installation.

> And installing requires  some different tools on UNIX and Windows.
> Plus the whole stupidity of \ vs / for directory separator and not
> counting the ; vs : path separator.

Windows allows you to use /, it has since before Vista [IIRC].

> That being said with the introduction of gprinstall I do plan at some
> point to provide a simple Windows script to build and install AWS.

That sounds very, very good to me.
Thank you for your work, and AWS really is a great product.
(I just find it discouraging that it's so hobbled by something that, 
IMO, should be a non-issue at this point.)