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,FREEMAIL_FROM,XPRIO autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9a8a048ba2cfe26b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-16 20:41:11 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!router1.news.adelphia.net!news1.news.adelphia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Terry Westley" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: porting from Solaris to Windows 2000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Message-ID: <_KHM6.241$Rq4.169410@news1.news.adelphia.net> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 03:40:42 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.49.118.149 X-Complaints-To: abuse@adelphia.net X-Trace: news1.news.adelphia.net 990070842 24.49.118.149 (Wed, 16 May 2001 23:40:42 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 23:40:42 EDT Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7602 Date: 2001-05-17T03:40:42+00:00 List-Id: In investigating porting a largish Ada application (with lots of Unixy stuff like shell scripts, Perl, Tcl/Tk, plus an Oracle database) from Solaris to Windows 2000, it appears that I have at least two options: 1) Cygwin 2) MS Interix Does anyone have experience with either of these and would like to make a recommendation? Are there other possibilities? We are using GNAT and so I'm also worried about whether there will be any adverse interaction between Mingw32 and either of cygwin or Interix. -- Terry Westley twestley@acm.org http://www.adatcl.com/