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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: GPS Now Failing with Windows 10
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 23:37:21 +0200
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On 2016-04-15 22:51, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> On 04/15/2016 12:56 PM, Eryndlia Mavourneen wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for the suggestion, Anh.  It is still broken, though.  I also
>> removed GNAT GPL and deleted the GNAT directory then re-installed GNAT
>> GPL to no avail.
>>
>> I will keep trying different strategies, as I discover them.
>
> One possibility is to install Linux (such as Linux Mint or Ubuntu) as a
> dual-boot, and install the gnat-mingw-w64 compiler on Linux as well as
> GNAT and GPS. Then you can build Windows executables using gnat-mingw as
> well as Linux executables. (Note that I have never used gnat-mingw-64.)

There is no problem to install MinGW directly on Windows. It has GNAT in.

I doubt it is a GNAT GPS problem. I have Windows 10, fully updated. GNAT 
GPL 2015 is working perfectly fine. GPS has some minor glitches, but 
they presumably are GTK to blame.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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