Re: Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ?

["Dave Head" <headdp@nswc.navy.mil>]

Hi Preben,

Thanks for the heads-up on these.  I have a couple options for Linux which I
will likely try one eventually (I'm way too busy building a ham radio
station right now...K8DH - digging holes for tower foundations, installing
my gee-whiz new radio in the car (worked on that most all weekend - still
not done...))   One is an old pentium computer.  Another is a computer that
is about to be a victim of the Navy's NMCI effort to get outside contractors
maintaining all the PCs.  This would be EDS, and they want to _rent_ us
computers - and we have the opportunity to buy our old machines from them
because its in the contract that they become EDS property.  Since this is a
1000 mhz pentium, that I may be able to get for $500, I probably will.  Its
got win2K / ntfs, etc.  It may be a candidate for a memory upgrade to about
a Gig, bigger disk, and VM-Ware and dual OS use via the VMware if I take
advantage of this.  Dunno why they're being so nice to us, except it may be
that its more profitable than trying to recycle these computers...

Dave Head

"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
news:slrnadseo3.120.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no...
> On Sat, 11 May 2002 21:09:12 -0400, DPH wrote:
> >
> > Not to be argumentative, but please describe.  Just take debugging for
> > example.
> >
> [snipped description of debugging in Borland C++]
>
> GVD -- http://libre.act-europe.fr/gvd/
>
> I didn't say that an IDE can't have advantages, I said that on Windows
> you feel very desperate if you don't have an IDE as you lack a lot of
> very nice tools. You can of course use cygwin in Windows, but at least
> my experience with this is that it is more cumbersome than working in
> Linux directly. There wouldn't be a drive to make IDE's for Linux if
> there are no advantages.
>
> As you can see here: http://freshmeat.net/browse/65/?topic_id=65
> There are 112 tries to develop some sort of IDEs.
>
> > So, anyway, I've thought of going to Linux as described, but have
> > dreaded it as a step backward with having to deal with a command line
> > again (I hate that...)  Of course, now there's Borland Builder 6 for
> > Linux, and GPS is coming for Ada.  Wheee...
>
> You don't have to use the command line so much as you think. Here is a
> screenshot of my Vim editor with a simple IDE that utilises a these
> command line arguments for you.
>
>    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/Ada95/vim-with-IDE.png
>
> I can use this in windows too, but then I would have to install things
> like cygwin to get it to work.
>
> I recommend that you install Linux (Choose Debian as this is much easier
> distribution to work with as soon as you have gotten it installed. It is
> a bit harder to install than other distributions though) on a machine
> and try it a bit while you still use Windows to get used to it.
>
> Preben
> --