Re: Installing GNAT GPL 2010 on Vista

["Albrecht Käfer" <albrecht_kaefer@yahoo.de>]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:06:58 +0200, Alex Mentis <asmentis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Be advised: GNAT GPL 2010 did not install correctly for me on Windows
>> > Vista with User Account Control turned on.  It raised a "cannot modify
>> > HKLM" error, and it did not install Start menu shortcuts or modify my
>> > path (so who knows what else it also didn't do...).  Manually
>> > configuring these two items was insufficient to subsequently install
>> > GtkAda (GtkAda installer did not recognize that GNAT was installed).
>>
>> > Recommendation:  turn off User Account Control during the installation
>> > of GNAT GPL 2010.  So far this work-around seems to have fixed the
>> > problems above.
>>
>> “Run as administrator” from the context menu did it for me. Someone (the
>> word “idiot” comes to mind) apparently forget that an installer should
>> request elevation.
>>
>> Albrecht
>
> Of course... Run as administrator is probably the better solution.  I
> should have thought of that.

Really, the mistake was done by AdaCore. Incidentally, the win32ada
installer *does* request elevation, but neither GNAT for Win32 nor GNAT
for .Net do.

Also, while GNAT for .Net tries to integrate with Visual Studio 2010, it
fails. Somehow. There's an entry for Ada projects, but it doesn't work.
One wonders if they actually test their (free) products; seeing that they
are basically advertisement for GNAT Pro, they might want to put some work
into it.


Albrecht