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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half?
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 20:01:19 +0100
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Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

> If you can't use the GPL, as you mention, there are other supported
> Ada compilers, and FSF GNAT.  For trying out compilers, what is
> wrong with choosing FSF GNAT or taking an evaluation offer?

It certainly seems to be true that, no matter how daft you or I might
think it, management would prefer to use Windows to develop on.

I wonder how difficult it is to build GNAT on Windows? I'm pretty sure
it has to be under MinGW. I did manage after many hours to get PolyORB
to build under MinGW, but it crashed dismally when used .. in contrast
to the Linux build, which worked out of the box. Perhaps it would be
worth a try .. on the other hand, I would like a little bit of a life!