Re: Rebuilding GNAT for mingw (32bit)

[Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 04:01:18 -0700, Jere wrote:

> So I recently ran into an issue using the FSF GNAT on 32bit mingw.
> It ended up having a bug in GNAT.Serial_Communications, which was fixed
> in later versions of GNAT found in 64 bit mingw.  Unfortunately I can't
> upgrade to the 64bit version and get a later version of GNAT.
> The bug fix was only a few lines, so I figured I could make the change
> to g-sercom.adb in the adainclude directory and hopefully recompile
> GNAT.  When I looked up instructions for this I found:
> 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gnat_ugn/Rebuilding-the-GNAT-Run-Time-
Library.html
> Any help would be appreciated.

In the event you can't find the correct answer, you can probably move 
forward by replacing g-sercom.ad[sb] with your own package derived from 
it, in your project and under your control.

I'm sure someone will jump in with comments if there are license 
implications to this approach.

-- Brian