Re: free Ada compiler ?

["hongxun lee" <lee.1801@osu.edu>]

> Cygwin is a Unix environment for MS-Windows, implementing all the Gnu
> tools. See http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin. It works quite well, but
> ACT decided to use a different approach to implement GNAT on Windows.
>
 So 'gnat-3.13p-i686-pc-linux-gnu-bin' is definitely  *not*  for Cygwin?
Thanks


"Stephen Leake" <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> "Thomas Mueller" <tmueller@bluegrass.net> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:06:37 -0500, hongxun lee wrote:
> > > Is there such a unix version compiler (better can be installed on
Cygwin) ?
> >
> > There is GNAT, available for Linux i386 and a few other Unixes,
> > MS-Windows and OpenVMS too. I am not familiar with Cygwin.
>
> Cygwin is a Unix environment for MS-Windows, implementing all the Gnu
> tools. See http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin. It works quite well, but
> ACT decided to use a different approach to implement GNAT on Windows.
>
> > Does anybody know if GNAT can be cross-compiled for a platform where
> > there is no GNAT binary currently available? For instance, Linux on
> > non-i386, or NetBSD on i386 and non-i386.
>
> Yes, GNAT can be built as a cross-compiler. That is the only way to
> put it on a platform for which you do not have a binary. However, you
> must know what you are doing, and the build instructions that come
> with the source are not particularly helpful; it can take some
> experimentation. This situation may improve when GNAT is released on
> gcc 3.1.
>
> --
> -- Stephe