Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3DA2866A.FBD61E9D@imag.fr> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:16:58 +0200 From: Pierre Habraken Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Universit=E9?= Joseph Fourier X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry van Dijk CC: gnatlist@lyris.seas.gwu.edu, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Gnat for win32 does not search include and library paths References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 -- ________________________________________________________________________ Pierre HABRAKEN - mailto:Pierre.Habraken@imag.fr Tél: 04 76 82 72 83 - Fax: 04 76 82 72 87 IMAG-LSR BP72 38402 SAINT MARTIN D'HERES Cedex ________________________________________________________________________ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/