Re: Compiling AdaSockets for Windows XP

["Dr. Michael Paus" <paus@ib-paus.com>]

Pascal Obry wrote:

> "Martin Dowie"  writes:
>
>
> >Have to agree though - I spent so long trying to get this to all work that
> >I just gave up and went back to v1!
>
>
> There is a Windows distribution available on on Dmitriy Anisimkov's homepage
> and on my homepage too.

Thanks for the link. That's what I am using now. Why don't you include that
in your own distribution? That would have saved me a lot of trouble.

Is anybody planning to update the Windows version to 1.4.1? From what I saw
there may be a problem with some constants which don't seem to exist in
the Windows header files.

> Note that the tools needed to build it on Windows are either the Cygwin
> toolset (pretty easy to install these days) or the MSYS toolset see
> http://www.mingw.org/. Both are free.
>
> You should probably have one installed if you plan to do development based on
> GNU softwares on Windows anyway.

With a good IDE there is no need for that. I only do Java development on Windows
and haven't been missing these tools so far. In this case I just wanted to
compile an existing piece of Ada software as a test driver for some Java software
and this would have been easier with a ready to compile socket binding (and if
GNAT 3.15p would not have crashed two times on this software which compiles
fine on several other systems with GNAT 3.14p).

Michael