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"Tim Rowe" <tim@remove_if_not_spam.digitig.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 10 Feb 2004 22:11:39 +0100, Jerry van Dijk
> <somename@nospam.demon.nl> wrote:
>
> A little sweeping! I have the gnatwin package installed
> (ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.15p/winnt/), which includes WIndows
> API bindings, though I've not used them yet; as you might note from my
> other postings I'm looking at the .net bindings at the moment. I'd
> guess that the biggest issue with gnatwin is likely to be the gnu
> license which may not be suitable for your purposes.

GNAT uses the LGPL, easily the most flexible licence around.

I have done quite a lot of programming with the Win32Ada bindings, which is
available both for GNAT and for ObjectAda. It is a very thin binding to the
Win32 API services. It looks sort of ugly, but to those who are used to
Win32 programming in C, it looks very familiar.