Re: free Ada compiler ?

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

> c) We found that mingwin was lighter and worked better,
> and did not have a license problem.

A stupid Q: what's mingwin? i saw it very recently. Something similar to
Cygwin?

"Robert Dewar" <dewar@gnat.com> wrote in message
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> "hongxun lee" <lee.1801@osu.edu> wrote in message
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> >  So 'gnat-3.13p-i686-pc-linux-gnu-bin' is definitely
> > *not*  for Cygwin? Thanks
>
> That is correct. We did try building with Cygwin at one
> point, but abandoned this for three reasons:
>
> a) there were significant stability problems in Cygwin at
> the time. This may of course have improved.
>
> b) the license at the time (I do not know if this has
> changed) was not suitable, since for something this basic,
> we really wanted something with the modified GPL (at least
> at the time, as I say it may have changed, Cygwin was under
> the GPL, and to use it in non-Free Software, you had to
> buy the proprietary version). Given that EVERY program
> uses this library, we saw this as too restrictive.
>
> c) We found that mingwin was lighter and worked better,
> and did not have a license problem.
>
>
>
> Robert Dewar
> Ada Core Technologies