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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ffbfadabc9c8a704 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-10 18:39:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!west.cox.net!cox.net!p01!news1.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "R. Srinivasan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3E6CDBCD.7A44CC8B@easystreet.com> Subject: Re: GWindows 1.1 Released X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 02:39:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.10.37.142 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news1.east.cox.net 1047350352 68.10.37.142 (Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:39:12 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:39:12 EST Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35162 Date: 2003-03-11T02:39:12+00:00 List-Id: 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