From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: Does A free Ada binding to the Win32 API exist?
Date: 1998/08/04
Date: 1998-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ex6v1I.6I@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.902213488@merv
Robert Dewar (dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
: Jerry says
: <<You can use the Win32 API directly using the Win32Ada binding. For more
: info, see my homepage.
: >>
: Note however that this is not free in the sense of 0$. It is impermissible
: (i.e. a violation of Micrsoft's copyright) to use the Win32 API unless you
: hold a valid SDK license. There is no legitimate way that I know of to
: acquire this license without paying a fee.
Robert is right in that the binding is not free in the sense of 0$. You need
an valid licence to the Win32 SDK. However, this license comes with a lot of
windows development environments. I would guess that buying an old one (for
example an old 32-bit MS or Borland C++ compiler) cheaply would be sufficient.
Jerry.
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-- Jerry van Dijk | email: jdijk@acm.org
-- Leiden, Holland | member Team-Ada
-- Ada & Win32: http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-02 0:00 Does A free Ada binding to the Win32 API exist? Matthew Gallant
1998-08-03 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk [this message]
1998-08-05 0:00 ` Matthew Gallant
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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