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On 10-Jul-14 15:39, björn lundin wrote:
> Den torsdagen den 10:e juli 2014 kl. 22:19:18 UTC+2 skrev Shark8:
>> On 10-Jul-14 13:49, Marius Amado-Alves wrote:
>>>> My current number one example: implementing OpenSSL in Ada is exactly
>>>> the kind of thing Ada would be good at. Unfortunately, it's also not
>>>> practical.
>>> On the contrary, it would be very practical to have AWS working well with SSL...
>>> I was never able to do that on Windows.
>>> AWS is a great lib, but horrible at installing.
>>
>
> Really? I have some fairly recent installation notes if you are still interested.

I'd like that.

>> I did have a bit of trouble installing it, yes -- but that was *REALLY*
>> minor compared to the inability to get any DB-binding to correctly
>> compile [and link].
>
> Really? What database/os?
>
> /Björn
>

I tried Postgres, Gnatcoll, some MySQL binding [I forget], and an ODBC 
one. I'm on a windows machine, but I think it may have been a problem in 
the cygwin config... I *hate* make and autotools.