Re: Cygwin and gcc-ada 3.4.1 (was Re: timeouts)

[Dr Steve Sangwine <sjs@essex.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:31:52 +0200, Jano <notelacreas@porfavor.no>
wrote:

>I have a doubt after all this talk about the convenience of migrating to 
>3.4.1:
>
>* I see the Mingw is in candidate status (may be good enough).

I have been using MinGW/gcc 3.4.1 for some time, and not found any
problems with it (and I did find problems with earlier releases of
gcc 3).


>
>* If I'd choose to use the cygwin one, would the executables produced 
>require the cygwin1.dll? (I suppose so, this is my doubt).

I think so, the advantage of MinGW is that it produces code that will
run without any special DLLs.
>
>Would you say that is definitely preferable to use 3.4.1 over a patched 
>3.15p?

I would say yes, but I may not have exercised it enough and there is a
possibility you will hit a problem in 3.4.1 that is not present in
3.15p.

Steve Sangwine

>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>A. Mosteo.