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=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FAKE_REPLY_C, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ffbfadabc9c8a704 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-10 14:11:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "David Botton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GWindows 1.1 Released Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:09:30 -0500 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: Reply-To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1047334242 58451 137.194.161.2 (10 Mar 2003 22:10:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:10:41 +0000 (UTC) To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" Return-Path: X-pair-Authenticated: 209.214.86.19 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35154 Date: 2003-03-10T17:09:30-05:00 > 1. First, there seems to be some trouble between make and the copy > commands in the gwindows/bindings/makefile. I'm using the 3.77 > version of make that was recommended at one time as the one to > use with gnat, IIRC. Is there a newer or better one that will > work better with this makefile? To deal with this: The one that comes with the public GNAT distributions. > a. I replaced 'copy' with 'cp' wherever "copy" appeared in any > mkefile and made sure that the cp commands all had an explicit > destination. Note that backslashes have to be doubled, ie \\ > instead of \ for use with cp, and you have to have cp installed. > It comes with some distributions of unix utilities for windows. You must be using cygwin. Change to the DOS prompt and you will have less problems. > b. attrib also acted up in the makefile. IDK why. It seems to > have fixed itself. I think I changed some of the attrib commands > to CMD /C "attrib ... ". Note that the entire attrib command > is enclosed in double quotes. This at least kept the makefiles > from crashin. I hope it worked. ditto > 2. You've got to have the most recent version of GnatCom installed > first before installing GWindows. An older version won't work. Stated on the Web Page > 3. You've got to set the ADA_INCLUDE_PATH: > I've set > ADA_INCLUDE_Path=L:\Ada\Gnatcom\Bindings;L:\Ada\Gnatcom\Tools; > > This is where Gnatcom is installed on my machine. Again this is a product of your not using the DOS prompt. > > 4. It also looks like the makefile calls some perl scripts, so you > should need to have perl/bin on your path. They are only needed if you try to produce HTML files from the sources. I haven't used that part of the Makefiles in a while, wonder if it still works.... I've been using other tools as of late. Perhaps you should consider contributing a set of makefiles that work for your env. if everything works out well for you. David Botton