Re: Ada - Install

[Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com>]

Finger.Octopus@gmail.com wrote:
> Nope, I only have one GNAT in my path variable, though I have many DOS
> GNAT and MinGW installed, but none of them are in my path variable,
> see:
> echo %path%
> 
> E:\GNAT\bin;E:\Perl\bin\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS
> \System32\Wbem
> ;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT;C:
> \Program F
> iles\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin;C:\Program Files
> \Microsoft Visua
> l Studio\Common\Tools;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> \VC98\bin;G:\Langu
> ages-ins\dm845c\dm\bin;G:\Languages-ins\JAVA_DEVELOPERS_KIT
> \jdk1.5.0_01\jdk1.5.0
> _01\bin;E:\php5;E:\masm;E:\tasm-mini
> 

A few thoughts.

1) I'm still a bit confused because earlier you indicated you needed a 
DOS version but that is clearly not a DOS machine given the path. Did 
you simply mean you needed something you could run at a command line 
that looked an awful lot like the way DOS used to look? A command prompt 
under windows is not the same thing as DOS.

2) I seem to recall some problems with some versions when they were not 
installed on the C: drive. I might be thinking of something else but it 
is worth a try.

3) Perhaps one of the other versions of things that you have installed 
someplace has set one or more of the GCC related environment variables 
(either via the old autoexec.bat the control panel environment variable tab)

4) Perhaps there is something going on with a similar set of variables 
which can be (and were) set in the registry on old versions.

Since that path you have clearly indicates this is not a DOS machine, 
I'd recommend uninstalling all of the GNAT versions you have. Go to

https://libre.adacore.com/index.html

Get a recent version of GNAT. Install it and try again.

Even the newest version you get can still be called from the windows 
command line which is almost certainly what we are talking about here 
unless someone has backported the jdk1.5.0 to DOS.