Re: GWindows 1.1 Released

["R. Srinivasan" <r.srinivasan@cox.net>]

<support@PublicPropertySoftware.com> wrote in message
news:3E6CDBCD.7A44CC8B@easystreet.com...
> I hit a couple of problems trying to install this (make ANSI=1 install),
> on WinNT, v4, sp6.  None of these are likely problems
> with the distribution, but they are things that might also cause
> trouble for typical brain-dead downloaders like me. so I'll
> share my results.
>
> 1. First, there seems to be some trouble between make and the copy
> commands in the gwindows/bindings/makefile.  I'm using the 3.77
> version of make that was recommended at one time as the one to
> use with gnat, IIRC.  Is there a newer or better one that will
> work better with this makefile?  To deal with this:
>
> a. I replaced 'copy' with 'cp' wherever "copy" appeared in any
> mkefile and made  sure that the cp commands all had an explicit
> destination.  Note that backslashes have to be doubled, ie  \\
> instead of \ for use with cp, and you have to have cp installed.
> It comes with some distributions of unix utilities for windows.
>

I think it is because there is no "copy.exe". It is just a command supported
by CMD. I replaced all copy by $(COPY) and set COPY=CMD /C at the top of the
makefile.

appeared to take care of it.

> b. attrib also acted up in the makefile. IDK why.  It seems to
> have fixed itself.  I think I changed some of the attrib commands
> to  CMD /C "attrib ...   ".  Note that the entire attrib command
> is enclosed in double quotes.  This at least kept the makefiles
> from crashin. I hope it worked.
>
> 2. You've got to have the most recent version of GnatCom installed
>    first before installing GWindows. An older version won't work.
>
> 3. You've got to set the ADA_INCLUDE_PATH:
>    I've set
> ADA_INCLUDE_Path=L:\Ada\Gnatcom\Bindings;L:\Ada\Gnatcom\Tools;
>
>     This is where Gnatcom is installed on my machine.
>
> 4.  It also looks like the makefile calls some perl scripts, so you
>     should need to have perl/bin on your path.
>
>
>
> Al