Re: GCC 3.1 / Ada / Cygwin / Win2k ?

[Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>]

Wes Groleau wrote:
> Would like to hear from anyone who successfully installed
> the whole combo of Cygwin 1.3.13 & GCC 3.1.1 (enable Ada,
> C, C++) on Windows 2K

Well, not getting anywhere with that, I decided to
"practice" by installing it on an easily-rebuilt
Solaris box.  The installation documents are a bit
confusing at one point.  It seems to say you cannot
build with Ada unless you already have an older GNAT.
But it doesn't give much clues on setting of variables
or options to use the older GNAT.

And then it seems to say you CAN install GNAT without
an older one, IF you can figure out a lot of cryptic
configuration variances.

> The Cygwin installer doesn't seem to work very well.
> Is there a trick for selecting/deselecting packages
> that won't lock up the installer?

Still interested if anyone can answer this--and if
anyone can list CygWin parts that are definitely NOT
needed to install or run GCC/GNAT.