Re: Ada and OS/2

["John Merryweather Cooper" <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>]

Yes, it works quite well.  Cygwin and GNAT for WinDoze on the otherhand need
to be "kept at arms length" from each other.

jmc
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"Christoph Seelhorst" <christoph.seelhorst@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:3919D5C5.CC1F055B@gmx.de...
> What seems another great thing to me is the fact that you can combine Gnat
with
> the other variations of emx, e.g. GCC , g++ and g77.  Well, I THINK it
will
> work, I have not really made in-depth testing there.  If anyone has
experience
> reports, I'd be glad to know.
>
> Cheers,  Christoph
>
>
> David Dousette wrote:
>
> > I was having a few troubles getting it set up at first, and I had a few
> > misconceptions regarding GNU development tools.  But I had assistance
via
> > email and a closer read of the readme file, and I also had a lot of my
> > misconceptions cleared up, so now I can't wait till I get to the chapter
in
> > my Ada book when it tells me I can touch the keyboard... ;^)
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Dave
> >
> > Christoph Seelhorst wrote:
> >
> > > I have checked the Ada market since quite some years, but I do not
know
> > > of any other OS/2 Ada compiler.
> > > Years ago I tried the (then) Alsys Personal Ada for Windows, but it
did
> > > not cooperate with WinOS2.
> > > So it seems that Gnat is our only choice, but what is bad with it??
> > >
> > > Cheers, Christoph
> > >
> > > David Dousette wrote:
> > >
> > > > Are there any other options for an Ada 95 compiler for OS/2 besides
> > > > GNAT?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > David
>