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On 23-Mar-14 18:16, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 22-Mar-14 12:28, Stephen Leake wrote:
>>> Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Thursday, 20 March 2014 19:28:48 UTC, Shark8  wrote:
>>>>> On 19-Mar-14 14:04, Alan Browne wrote:
>>>>>> On 2014.03.18, 19:23 , Shark8 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> 1. Delphi?   Why not in Ada?
>>>>>
>>>>> Answered upthread: mostly possible issues in licensing and my rotten
>>>>> luck getting DB bindings to compile/link correctly.
>>>>
>>>> Really? You couldn't get postgres-ada to compile? Really easy. If
>>>> you're talking gnatcoll, then yeah, that's a complete bitch, don't
>>>> think anyone's been too successful there.
>>>
>>> I use gnatcoll for db access. There are quirks, but it works quite well.
>>
>> I could never get gnatcoll to work; it took a /lot/ of time/effort to
>> get it so it would compiler and link... and even then it wouldn't work
>> when I tried to use it.
>>
>> I'm going to hazard a guess that you were using a linux-system, yes?
>> (I'm on a Windows system, and the building process [IMO] seems to be
>> overly dependent on the OS.)
>
> I use debian, red hat, and windows; and both gnatpro and gnat gpl.
>
> Never had a problem building and installing gnatcoll.
>
> I do have cygwin installed on Windows; I'm not sure if that's the key or
> not.

I had cygwin, too; IIRC there was some oddities/dificulties trying to 
get it to link w/ postgres... and after that, there were some problems 
w/ getting GNAT/GPS to use the compilation-results.