Re: GNAT on MinGW

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

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

> And if you find the article outdated you can try the "Edit" button ;-).

I'm not sure if it is outdated. :-(

> Notice:   languages: c,c++!!!
>
> No java, no fortran, no ada.

Even that would be more than what you can get from mingw.org. I wonder why.

>> 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.
>
> Remember that AdaCore allways supplies huge diff files with each compiler.
> They really work hard to get things going - especially for non POSIX
> environments like Windows and VMS. I just which they would not send patched
> to trunc only.

I think the remarks I cited didn't refer to gnat. And if the situation
is that bad for C/C++ I would not hold my breath for other languages.

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