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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Leiden, Holland | web: users.ncrvnet.nl/gmvdijk -- ________________________________________________________________________ Pierre HABRAKEN - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/