Re: free Ada compiler ?

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

Thanks Stephe

i read the docs there though i can't really figure out the diff yet.
My Q really is that i want to use the unix version Ada compiler (i've been
using the windows version for a while) without losing the convenience of
windows.
Does MinGW make sense ?


"Stephen Leake" <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> "hongxun lee" <lee.1801@osu.edu> writes:
>
> > A stupid Q: what's mingwin? i saw it very recently. Something similar to
> > Cygwin?
>
> http://www.mingw.org/
>
> MinGW (the "win" was changed to "w" a while ago) is a binding to the
> Windows API, that uses POSIX-ish names. It lets POSIX-ish programs
> (like the Gnu tools) be compiled for the native Windows runtime,
> without any additional code.
>
> Cygwin is similar, but adds code to do some emulation stuff for pipes,
> file system links, and other stuff not present in the Windows runtime.
> So Cygwin can support a broader range of applications, but Mingw is
> lighter weight.
>
> --
> -- Stephe