Re: GNAT on MinGW

[Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>]

Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> No I created a cross compiler for linux. Next step would have been to
> use that cross compiler to create a native MinGW compiler. But that
> proved difficult.
>
> I have now tried all sorts of tricks and nothing worked out - there
> was always some show stopper down the line.

This is all very confusing. 

On http://gnuada.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Install/MS-Windows
you (was it written by you?) say that "the main problem is: MinGW
can't compile the gcc 4.1.0 at all." And really the latest version on
mingw.org is gcc 3.4.5. OTOH there is http://gcc.winports.org/ which
claims to have gcc 4.1.2 with the following release notes:

gcc 4.1.2

technical specs
host: i386-pc-mingw32
target: i386-pc-mingw32
languages: c,c++

built @ i686 machine running msys 1.0.10 under WinXP Pro SP2

But there are no sources and not much information on who they are and
what they have done to build gcc 4.1 that I can find. I've also not
tried it out since I've no Windows @home.

Ah, there is a forum with a total of 4 postings, one from the MinGW
project administrator, which discuss a) GPL violation by this project
and b) general unfitness of the Windows port of gcc 4. Looks like
there is not much chance for a usable Windows gcc 4 until quite some
bugs in gcc are fixed. 

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