GNAT for Windows NT

GNAT for Windows NT

[Brian Wentz]

  Does anyone have GNAT ported to NT, or in the midst of working
  on it?  I was going to start on it, but don't want to
  waste my time if someone else has done it.  Let me know, thanks!

-- 

  "Beer goes through me like snow" -- Wyatt Bardouille-Wolfe

Brian Wentz						wentz@vt.edu

Re: GNAT for Windows NT

[Robert Dewar]

There will be a port to NT available on cs.nyu.edu sometime net week if all 
goes smoothly. This has been worked on by Doug Rupp, who did the DOS port,
and will be one of the standard NYU supported ports. The next release of
GCC will include full support for NT as well.

Re: GNAT for Windows NT

[Tom Griest]

In article <37mchr$oo8@server.cs.vt.edu> wentz@actor.cs.vt.edu (Brian Wentz) writes:
>  Does anyone have GNAT ported to NT, or in the midst of working
>  on it?  I was going to start on it, but don't want to
>  waste my time if someone else has done it.  Let me know, thanks!
>

Yes.  LabTek ported GNAT to NT some time ago, but we only told
folks in the MS-Windows WG in SigAda and a few others, like NYU
and the Ada9X project office.  I guess we shouldn't keep it quiet
any longer.

You can get Gnat/NT from ftp.cs.yale.edu in pub/gnat.

The version that is there is 1.81, however we expect to upload
1.83 tonight.  We wanted to test it under the final release
(build 807) of WinNT-3.5 and now that has completed.

LabTek has added a WinHelp file for gcc/gnat that provides
hypertext help and full word index of all the options and switches.

We have also added a special "Convention" for the Import and
Convention pragmas that allow you to call Win32 API calls
directly.  Along with that, there are special versions of
gnatb and gnatbl that provide the proper WinMain stuff you
need for doing real "windows" work.  Also, you should be aware 
that there is a funded effort to provide a public "thin Ada binding" 
to Win32, and there is also work going on with thicker bindings.
Although I can't give you a hard date on these bindings, they
are probably less than 4 months away.  LabTek has partial
"preliminary" bindings that we developed for windef, winnt, 
winuser, winbase, and wingdi that we have been using and can 
probably get you if you're in a crunch.

So before you go off and re-invent the wheel, check with me and
I can let you know where things stand.

Tom Griest
LabTek Corporation

GNAT/NT 1.83 now available (was GNAT for Windows NT)

[Tom Griest]

In article <37mchr$oo8@server.cs.vt.edu> wentz@actor.cs.vt.edu (Brian Wentz) writes:
>  Does anyone have GNAT ported to NT, or in the midst of working
>  on it?  I was going to start on it, but don't want to
>  waste my time if someone else has done it.  Let me know, thanks!
>

I have uploaded gcc-2.6.0 with GNAT-1.83 to ftp.cs.yale.edu /pub/gnat.
I didn't get it done last night because I decided to update the on-line
help.  "Sorry" to those who tried to access it this morning.

Please let me know if you get it so I can update you on any changes
or other bug fixes.

-Tom