From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,XPRIO autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,62a0ce08269e2cbf,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-11 15:32:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!nntp.abs.net!feeder.qis.net!btnet-peer!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: windows bindings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:27:10 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.253.13.1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 1002839218 62.253.13.1 (Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:26:58 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:26:58 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14341 Date: 2001-10-11T23:27:10+01:00 List-Id: Hi, Are there any open source bindings to the Windows API? The bindings that come with GNAT are out because of the terms underwhich they are distributed. Gwindows looks like a good candidate, however there are some issues that come to mind. The first is license compatibility, the project will use the 'MIT License'. The second is using OpenGL with GWindows (which admittedly I haven't looked at) and the third is it's relationship to GNAT. Since it's a prototype the third issue can be forgotten about (out of curiosity, how much work would be needed to get Gwindows to work with another Windows compiler say ObjectAda?). If it is not possible to use gwindows is there an alternative, doubly free (open source and no pennies) binding? If not how much work would be involved in creating a binding (probably a thin one)? Can it be done automatically? Chris