Re: GNAT on a multiboot computer

[Anders Wirzenius <anders@no.email.thanks.invalid>]

Adrien Plisson <aplisson-news@stochastique.net> writes:

> Anders Wirzenius wrote:
> > Tkanks, but I have not got any help from the registry.
> > These are from the "XP registry" (hardisk C:):
> > --------------------------------------------
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ada Core Technologies] "GCC"="C:\\GNAT"
> > "MINGW32"="@GCC" "GNAT"="@GCC" "VERSION"="3.15p" "BINUTILS"="@GCC"
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ada Core Technologies\GNAT]
> > "ROOT"="C:\\GNAT" "FOLDER"="GNAT Public Version"
> > "GUID"="{CB2174B0-F84A-11D4-ACAA-0010A4E31500}"
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ada Core Technologies\GNAT\3.15p]
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ada Core Technologies\GNAT\Standard
> > Libraries]
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ada Core Technologies\MGNAT]
> > "Root"="c:\\mgnat"
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ada Core Technologies\MGNAT\Standard
> > Libraries] "DOTNET"="c:\\mgnat\\include"
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > There is of course nothing in the "WIN 2003 registry" (E:) Maybe I
> > could
> > copy the GNAT keys from XP to 2003?  Maybe the "ROOT"="C:\\GNAT" is
> > missing in 2003?
> 
> that what I was meaning... you can try to copy them from XP to 2003.
> but BEWARE OF THE GUID key !! it seems to relate to uninstall
> informations, but on my machine I can also find a reference to this
> GUID in the ARPCache (!?! why is it referenced here !?!)
> 
> try and see !
> 
> -- 
> rien

I tried and saw. :)

Success.
At least my small test program was linked and could be run successfully.
Thanks again.

I forgot to remove the GUID key, but will remove it from the 2003 registry.

To me it seems that this configuration has to be pretty much the same as
what you get when you install GNAT on another partition than on the
traditional C:. I have never done such an installation of GNAT.

Anders