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> I am sure you can. I do not see why not. Just link with static libraries
> when building your .exe instead of shared ones.

Yes but how? What do I add to the gnatmake command line to make a static
executable? 

> If you are distributing an executable, why one any one need to have gcc on
> their end to run your program?gcc is a compiler.
>
> May be I am missing something here.

To explain a bit more whether someone has gcc or not I was talking about the
runtime for Ada being available because I read gcc-ada needs the runtime
available and I don't know if you can link it staticly and if so, how.