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Subject: Using TDM-GCC with ADAGIDE and GWindows/GNATCOM
From: Fionn MacCumhaill <jdgressett@hotmail.com>
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I have been using the TDM-GCC 32-bit Ada compiler for several years now wit=
h the AdaGIDE IDE, which is now showing its age - it uses gnatmake for buil=
ding. TDM-GCC has been stalled at the gcc 5.1 release until quite recently,=
 when a gcc 9.2 release appeared.=20

For a long time, every binary gcc release for Windows that I have seen has =
been configured with --disable-win32-registry. In the gcc 5.1 release, the =
Ada compiler build ignored that option. Almost all of my development projec=
ts use GWindows and I have been using a Gwindows tool, gnatreg, which uses =
the Windows registry to let the Ada compiler organize directories containin=
g various libraries. I have one which contains a set of highly-specialized =
extensions to GWindows; another one contains Dmitry Kazakov's Simple Compon=
ents, and a few others.

At some point between gcc 5.1 and gcc 9.2, the Ada compiler went consistent=
 with the rest of the gcc compilers and ditched the Windows registry.

I'm now trying to use environment variables like ADA_INCLUDE_PATH and ADA_O=
BJECTS_PATH, which I have created with the same directories that I used wit=
h gnatreg, but it appears that I need more than those - my first attempt to=
 build a program with AdaGIDE failed with the Ada compiler trying unsuccess=
fully to compile pieces of GWindows and GNATCOM into the same directory as =
my program. I'm missing something here, but I'm not sure what it is. Ideas?