From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: ANN: Simple Components for Ada v4.20
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:52:38 +0100
Date: 2017-03-13T10:52:38+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oa5q56$g9n$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: oa5nfe$uhf$1@dont-email.me
On 13/03/2017 10:09, G.B. wrote:
> On 12/03/2017 14:16, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
>> I am going upgrade tar.exe in my tool-chain to msys2. The version I am
>> using is the latest GNU version and that is year 2003. (:-))
>
> Does Windows, or Microsoft, still offer the pax tool?
> It used to produce portable archives.
I never heard about it. The GNU source was a natural candidate for tar
and gzip. Unfortunately it has not been updated for more than a decade.
msys2 does the job. One drawback is that msys2 versions are dynamically
linked, so one would have to carry a few DLLs with. GNU builds were
statically linked.
Another rather big and ugly issue is that msys2 and mingw guys
maliciously drop Windows XP support.
This consequently applies to GNAT. I guess that the new version of
GtkAda (and thus of GPS) will no more run under Windows XP. I cannot
tell the effect on all applications built with GNAT, but be ready! (:-()
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-12 8:39 ANN: Simple Components for Ada v4.20 Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-03-12 11:49 ` Björn Lundin
2017-03-12 13:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-03-13 8:42 ` slos
2017-03-13 9:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-03-13 10:17 ` slos
2017-03-13 10:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-03-13 14:09 ` slos
2017-03-13 15:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-03-13 10:44 ` slos
2017-03-13 9:09 ` G.B.
2017-03-13 9:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
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