Re: Windows: cygwin vs. GNAT mingw

["Gerhard Häring" <gerhard@bigfoot.de>]

Terry Westley schrieb im Artikel <6GIY7.257$Ov2.206578@news.uswest.net>:
> [snip]
> > [Gerhard:]
> > IMO if you want to use GNAT with the Cygwin DLL, you'll first have to
> > port it to Cygwin. Might be a relatively easy port, though.
>  
>  Well, I'd really prefer to use mingw because a) it's already built into GNAT
>  and b) it is reportedly much faster than cygwin.  But, I'm stuck because I
>  can't get either one to work!
>  
> > [Gerhard:]
> > Dunno if that strange winserve.dll is worth it. Do you have it on your
> > system at all? Have you tried DependencyWalker on it?
>  
>  I can't find it either on my system or anywhere on the net.

Then I don't get why you try to link against it. Do you have the import
library but not the DLL? If you don't have the DLL, you won't be able to
run the executable anyway!?

If so, in which form do you have the import library: .def, .lib or .a? I
could tell you then how to get this to work with GNAT.

>  What is Dependency Walker?  Is that like cygcheck that tells me what dlls
>  are used by an executable?  Sort of like ldd in the unix world.

Yup, eacatcly that, just with a GUI: http://www.dependencywalker.com/ -
a freeware utility formerly available from microsoft.com.

Gerhard
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