Re: Gnat and CygWin

["Jeff Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com>]

"Robert Dewar" <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> In article
> <t6fe3tc7gggpcoet6basooae1a44qk8u4b@4ax.com>,
>   abuse@borpin.co.uk (Brian Orpin  This is valid)
> wrote:
> > I installed Gnat first then CygWin.
>
> We have found many problems in running Cygwin with
> GNAT, and do not recommend this combination. Note
> also that you need to check Cygwin licensing before
> including it in non-Free Software programs (unlike
> the GNAT run-time, at least some versions of Cygwin
> are distributed under the unmodified GPL, and you
> need the proprietary version if you are going to
> use this in proprietary programs).
>
> We do not use Cygwin to build GNAT, instead we use
> Mingwin (i think that is the spelling ...)
>
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Of course if you are not trying to build GNAT so that it creates cygwin
programs but rather are just
using the cygwin environment to call GNAT I do not think you run into any
license issues (as long as
you are careful about your linking).

As to the stability of GNAT when used in this way...I'll defer to Robert on
that issue.