From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,40509554d579e4f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.germany.com!news.belwue.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Michael Bode Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT on MinGW Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:26:50 +0100 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: <1172232426.5367.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <6ify8xypj6.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <45e540e5$1@news.post.ch> <45e67b0f$1@news.post.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: p54af02db.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: online.de 1172777260 9421 84.175.2.219 (1 Mar 2007 19:27:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:27:40 +0000 (UTC) X-message-flag: IMPORTANT MESSAGE -- PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY!!! X-Accepted-File-Formats: ASCII, .rtf, .ps, .pdf - *NO* MS Office files User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9626 Date: 2007-03-01T20:26:50+01:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik 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. -- No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. He simply follows the eleventh commandment. -- R.A. Heinlein