Re: MinGW issues with gnat

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sun, 29 May 2011 23:16:25 +0200, Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com> a écrit:

> I downloaded MinGW yesterday. The gcc compiler/linker works fine for C  
> code but when I tried to run gnat (or any of the gnat utilities) I got  
> this:
>
> procedure entry point GetProcessID could not be located in KERNAL32.dll
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Running on an old Window 2000 box.
All GNAT versions later than GNAT 3.15p, were compatible with Windows NT  
(or like) kernels. Prior to Windows XP, Windows NT and other Windows  
version were different things. I guess that may be source of the failure.

You have to either switch to Windows XP or Windows NT. As this may not me  
possible (depending on the requirements), you may use GNAT 3.15p instead.
You can get one here:
http://www.les-ziboux.rasama.org/compilateur-ada-gnat.html
(the first link is a download for Windows, the second is a download for  
RedHat).

Note: I use to “play” with GNAT under Windows 95. Was OK with GNAT 3.15p,  
but cannot remember if I ever used a later version in the same  
circumstance. As far as I can remember, GNAT 3.15p provided Ada 95 (no Ada  
2005, obviously). You will also have to forget about the debugger which  
was not working (I am noticing this for you, as I don't use debuggers  
myself).

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