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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: GCC 3.1 / Ada / Cygwin / Win2k ?
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:14:13 -0400
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"Wes Groleau" <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message
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> My personal preference is "latest and greatest" but for my
> "customers" I must provide tools that "get the job done"
>
> * quickly    => "What do you mean testing?  It's been several
>                   hours since we asked for that!"
> * repeatable => No surprises when someone puts it on WinNT
>                  and I only tested on Win2K
> * reliable   => They can only screw it up by intentionally
>                  not following my instructions
> * robust     => Something that will not inspire misdirected
>                  blame against Ada
>
> The ideal would be one already built.  That gives me
> time to experiment with building the next one while
> they get started using this one.

Why don't you use the pre-built version at
ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.14p/winnt/
Is there some reason why the executables must be built to use the cygwin
dll?