Re: GTK Build from source

["RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com" <RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com>]

On Aug 20, 3:47 pm, Simon Wright <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
> "RasikaSriniva...@gmail.com" <RasikaSriniva...@gmail.com> writes:
> > In any case, I found that on Windows for gnat based development, I am
> > not sure cygwin works that well. for example, the -I and other such
> > specifications want to interpret the argument using the native
> > directory separator ie "\" and not the unix like "/"
>
> I prefer not to use -I etc; leave that sort of thig up to gnatmake,
> which it does perfectly well.
>
> You can of course have other problems using mixed Windows/Cygwin tools,
> in our case with environment variables most of which get converted
> properly by cygwin from the Windows set, but (if I remember correctly)
> not tools such as gnatmake which don't understand /cygdrive/d/... and
> need d:/... instead.
>
> What we did was to get a tool to create .reg and .sh (and .el!) files
> with equivalent and appropriate meanings: then you can double-click on
> the .reg file for use on command shells, and thereafter source the .sh
> file for cygwin shells from ~/.profile. A PITA to set up, but invisible
> after it's done.

thanks for all interesting ideas. srini