Re: Rebuilding GNAT for mingw (32bit)

[Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 7:13:14 AM UTC-4, Brian Drummond wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 04:01:18 -0700, Jere wrote:
> 
> > So I recently ran into an issue using the FSF GNAT on 32bit mingw.
> > It ended up having a bug in GNAT.Serial_Communications, which was fixed
> > in later versions of GNAT found in 64 bit mingw.  Unfortunately I can't
> > upgrade to the 64bit version and get a later version of GNAT.
> > The bug fix was only a few lines, so I figured I could make the change
> > to g-sercom.adb in the adainclude directory and hopefully recompile
> > GNAT.  When I looked up instructions for this I found:
> > 
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gnat_ugn/Rebuilding-the-GNAT-Run-Time-
> Library.html
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> In the event you can't find the correct answer, you can probably move 
> forward by replacing g-sercom.ad[sb] with your own package derived from 
> it, in your project and under your control.
> 
> I'm sure someone will jump in with comments if there are license 
> implications to this approach.
> 
> -- Brian

I did that initially to verify that the bug fix would work.  
I was hoping for a more global solution though so I didn't have
to supply that file for every project that I had that used the
serial port.  I renamed it to just Serial_Communications, made
the bug fix, and tested it out.