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From: Ali Bendriss <ali.bendriss@dementia.ion.ucl.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: gnat 2006 and windows vista
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Date: 2007-03-23T22:05:08+01:00

On Friday 23 March 2007 19:09, Wiljan Derks wrote:
> "Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com> wrote in message
> news:snnbd4-44q.ln1@newserver.thecreems.com...
>
> > I can now confirm via a second reliable source that the current GNAT GPL
> > Edition is not working on Vista - though I don't have any specific
> > details.
>
> I tested with gnat5.04a on Vista.
> It was not working directly, because it failed to locate the ada compiler.
> For that reason, I just added
> D:\GNATPRO\5.04a\libexec\gcc\pentium-mingw32msv\3.4.6 into my path
> so gnat1.exe could be found.
> After it worked fine on Vista RC1 and I was able to compile all our code
> (1.2Msloc).
>
I don't have access to vista, but from a presentation I remember that the 
permission and ACL management have changed (the access to the sysroot as 
well).
After browsing the web, it look like that setting up the path manually is 
mandatory (for the moment). Maybe the installer fail to set it up.