From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a073fa836a03b290 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-13 05:57:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news2.wam.umd.edu!info.usuhs.mil!oanews!not-for-mail From: "Dave Head" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ? Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 08:56:34 -0400 Organization: NSWCDD Message-ID: References: <3CD1FFC5.4050607@qwest.net> <5ee5b646.0205030057.7cb47a2d@posting.google.com> <3CDD3699.2090809@qwest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: oanews X-Trace: oanews 1021294671 27482 (13 May 2002 12:57:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@nswc.navy.mil NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 May 2002 12:57:51 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23947 Date: 2002-05-13T12:57:51+00:00 List-Id: 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" 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 > --