Re: GNADE samples on windows (cygwin)

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

mark_doherty@yahoo.co.uk (Mark Doherty) writes:

> Initially, under xp, I tried Gnat 3.15p and GNADE 1.5.3a but had too
> many problems (linker options referring to /usr/...) so I decided to
> use cygwin.
> 
> Under cygwin I have installed gcc 3.3.3 and GNADE. 
> 
> I am trying to build the mysql sample but it does not recognise that
> mysql (and other databases) are installed on the PC, because
> presumably they were not loaded under cygwin.

It's probably that they are not in the cygwin path; edit PATH in your
~/.bashrc.

> Do I have to install, from sources, everything that cygwin does not
> automatically include (GCC)?

no.

> Further, are there issues about shared libraries / DLLs that I will
> come across.

I'm using MySQL with GNADE via ODBC, compiled with GNAT 5.02
(non-cygwin), and have had no dll problems.

> Out of interest, why does cygwin not include all these products?

It's a volunteer system; no one has volunteered to put them all in.
Here's your chance!

> Does anybody have a step-by-step guide to install and run all the
> GNADE samples under windows (xp)?

Hmm. I'm the nominal GNADE maintainer for Windows. I guess that makes
it my job to create that guide; I hadn't quite thought of it that way.
Although Michael Erdmann is also doing Windows now.

Let's try this; send me (via private email) the steps you've taken so
far, and I'll see if I can reproduce your problems and provide
solutions. Then that will form the starting point for the guide you
are talking about. I'm on Windows 2000, but that really shouldn't matter.

You could also ask on the gnade mailing list
(http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=23045)

> I have already made attempts to read the GNADE documentation but it
> is still not clear to me, albeit is not for the GNADE documentation
> to document how to install mysql etc on cygwin.

Well, I think it should help, or refer you to other good docs. 

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-- Stephe