Re: GNATDOS on Win2000?

["David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

Hi Chris,

It's really hard to give an answer when so few details
are given.  I suspect that gnat for DOS will work on Win2k,
since I have used it on both Win9x and NT.

However, I also suspect you will have the same problem
with Grub, because I suspect the problem is that Grub
wants to load things that will begin execution in real mode,
rather than the protected mode in which both gnat for Win32
and gnat for DOS run.

I don't know whether there are any Ada compilers around
these days which will build real mode executables.

On the other hand, my suspicions about the cause of the
Grub problem could be completely wrong.

----- Original Message -----
From: "chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 6:02 AM
Subject: GNATDOS on Win2000?


> Hi,
>
> I appologise if this post is slightly OT (I've lost the address for
> GNATLIST).  Can GNATDOS be used on win2000?  I only want to compile stuff
> not run anything it produces.  I haven't used 2000 (by the time I read
your
> replies, it will be installed), I know it's got a DOS subsystem, although
I
> don't know if it is sufficient to run GNAT for Dos.  Has anyone had any
> success compiling programs on win2000 with this GNAT?
>
> If it doesn't work, then I'm going to have to play with the Windows
compiler
> (probably the source, then compile it) to do what I want (OS development).
> The Win compiler didn't work as it is (rather I couldn't get it to work
with
> GRUB, it just hangs).
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
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