[AWS] Trying to build on Windows

[Joseph Montanez]

I wrote a blogpost on this as well, which is just fixing the path,
since I couldn't get "mount" to work in MinGW.

http://my.opera.com/sutabi/blog/2012/03/07/how-to-get-ada-aws-2011-install-on-windows-7


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Casey Comendant <casey at hyperspire.com> wrote:
> Hello all, in regards to the following error when trying to build AWS
> on Windows I have discovered a solution that worked well for me.
>
> The error:
>>>gnatmake -Phttp_client.gpr
>>>aws_libz.gpr:39:30: library directory
>>>"C:\cygdrive\c\GNAT\2011\lib\aws\native\static\" does not exist
>>>gnatmake: "http_client.gpr" processing failed
>
> This error is caused when AWS_Lib_Shared.LIBZ_Path contains the wrong
> value due to the virtual nature of the
> file system under Cygwin and MinGW.
>
> The solution:
> In using MinGW Shell; simply do "mount C:/GNAT /GNAT"
> Now just install all components under the default location (ie:
> PREFIX=C:/GNAT\/2011 or --prefix=C:/GNAT\/2011)
> and you should be able to launch GPS from within windows  normally and
> compile your AWS sources correctly
> without the previous error. I have not tested this under Cygwin but it
> has worked for me under MinGW. However,
> I did find the Visual Studio Command Prompt included with Microsoft
> Visual Studio 2010 to work the best for
> compiling and installing these components.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Casey Comendant, Founder & Executive Director
> - Hyperspire Research Foundation
> - http://hyperspire.com/
> _______________________________________________
> AWS mailing list
> AWS at lists.adacore.com
> /no-more-mailman.html



-- 
Joseph Montanez
Web Developer
Gorilla3D
Design, Develop, Deploy