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, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4de02d484d08f163 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-04 10:25:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Terry Westley" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <6GIY7.257$Ov2.206578@news.uswest.net> Subject: Re: Windows: cygwin vs. GNAT mingw 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: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:25:20 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.100.53.97 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 1010168721 137.100.53.97 (Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:25:21 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:25:21 CST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18550 Date: 2002-01-04T13:25:20-05:00 List-Id: "Jeff Creem" wrote in message news:PIMY7.50873$5W5.20365514@typhoon.ne.mediaone.net... Referring to attempting to find getuid() and getgid() in the latest mingw distribution, Jeff wrote: > Good luck but I suspect that will probably not work. The whole purpose of > mingw is to use only native win32 libraries.. Those are pretty unixy > sounding calls. > > How many symbols are we talking about here? If it is a small number then > perhaps > you get to the first stage with dummy functions/procedures with appropriate > pragma exports in some with'd package. It didn't help. Now I'm looking closely at each unresolved symbol to see if I can do without it (if only temporarily to get an executable to test) or substitute a GNAT.OS_Lib call or Win32 call or use dummy procedures as you've suggested. -- Terry Westley westley@yahoo.com