Re: NEED: Ada Compiler - Windows

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Rick <ricbase@ptdprolog.net> wrote in article <3418B914.58DA@ptdprolog.net>...
> I am a college student and I am having problems finding an Windows
> based Ada compiler. The compiler I have now runs on dos and is made by
> GNAT 1995. It works but the linking takes forever and a day. Also my dos
> screen has shrunk to half my screen size when running GNAT editor.
>       Is there a site on the net where I can download and Windows 95 based
> editor and compiler for Ada 95? If so please help me, thanks. If you
> have a solution to the above problems, I would appreciate you input.
> Thanks!
>

If you find that linking on GNAT takes forever and a day, then almost 
certainly one of the following is true:

1. You have not enabled a decent sized disk cache

2. You have too little memory. We recommend an absolute minimum of 16 megs
   for running GNAT, and these days when 16 megs costs less than $100, it
   makes excellent sense to go to 32 megs. If you are compiling programs of
   any significant size, you will see a definite gain in performance from
   moving to 64 megs, or even more. These days memory is cheap, and GNAT is
   by no means the only program around to benefit from lots of memory!