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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
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Date: 1998-08-04T00:00:00+00:00
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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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