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From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half?
Date: 27 Sep 2005 12:04:08 +0200
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>>>>> "GB" == Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

    GB> Simon Wright wrote:
    >> It certainly seems to be true that, no matter how daft you or I might
    >> think it, management would prefer to use Windows to develop on.
    >> I wonder  how difficult it is  to build GNAT on  Windows? I'm pretty
    >> sure

    >> it has to be under MinGW. I did manage after many hours to get PolyORB
    >> to build under MinGW, but it crashed dismally when used .. in contrast
    >> to the Linux build, which worked out of the box. Perhaps it would be
    >> worth a try .. on the other hand, I would like a little bit of a life!

    GB> Maybe "Solaris" is the magic word? The new workstations seem comparatively
    GB> affordable...

You can run Solaris on almost any Intel box as well....

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