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Subject: Re: free Ada compiler ?
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From: Jerry van Dijk <jvandyk@attglobal.net>
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"hongxun lee" <lee.1801@osu.edu> writes:

> My Q really is that i want to use the unix version Ada compiler (i've been
> using the windows version for a while) without losing the convenience of
> windows.

If you want a unix version of Ada, you need to run a version of unix.

> Does MinGW make sense ?

Not at all. Mingw is native windows, cygwin emulates a posix environment
on top of it, to ease porting applications to Windows. Neither is unix.

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