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Re: Gnat for win32 does not search include and library paths
- From: Pierre Habraken <Pierre dot Habraken at imag dot fr>
- To: Jerry van Dijk <jvandyk at attglobal dot net>
- Cc: gnatlist at lyris dot seas dot gwu dot edu, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:16:58 +0200
- Subject: Re: Gnat for win32 does not search include and library paths
- Organization: Université Joseph Fourier
- References: <LYRIS0-1034059933--3012-lyris-admin@lyris.seas.gwu.edu>
Thanks Jerry for your advice.
I suspected something like that (though I don't know what is mingw).
I presume that the only thing I can do is to re-build Gnat from source
using ACT binaries and gcc 2.8.1 sources.
Has anyone already done this sort of thing ?
Pierre
Jerry van Dijk wrote:
>
> Pierre Habraken writes:
>
> > I am trying but fail to build an X11 program using Cygwin and Gnat
> > 3.14p.
>
> I think you like to live on the edge :-)
>
> If the X11 libs work with cygwin, that means that they are cygwin based.
> Cygwin is a posix emulating runtime.
>
> GNAT is mingw based and uses the msvcrt runtime.
>
> So even if the link worked (by presumably also linking in the cygwin runtime)
> you end up with a program using two different runtimes at the same time.
> I do not think that it will be very successful.
>
> Since the Cygwin license makes it impossible for ACT to build a cygwin based
> public GNAT release, you will need to find X11 libraries that work with
> mingw and use these for linking with GNAT.
>
> --
> -- Jerry van Dijk | email: jvandyk@attglobal.net
> -- Leiden, Holland | web: users.ncrvnet.nl/gmvdijk
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