[PolyORB-users] Can't configure PolyOrb using MSYS and/or Cygwin on WinXP

[Rob Groen]

Hi,

I have a WinXP SP3 Pro system with both MSYS and Cygwin installed.. For 
the Ada environment I am using GNAT GPL 2008

On MSYS the ./configure complains about not having the Ada compiler 
installed (it can find the Gnatchop utility in proper directory, that is 
the same as the one where the ada compiler resides...)

On Cygwin I had 2 go's, first after downloading the standard Cygwin 
config it complaint that :
it could not find /lib/cpp. So I ran the Cygwin setup again, checked the 
C++ compiler packages in the dev branch and ran the whole thing again.
Now under Cygwin it can't find the Ada compiler either, It can find 
Gnatchop...
Setting the symbol ADA to the patch where the Ada compiler is 
(ADA=/GNAT/GPL/bin/gcc in my case) did not help. Adding a .exe suffix to 
the symbol string did not make any difference

Pls, help!

(BTW using this kind of installing (./configure, make etc, that do not 
seem to be working in a standard out-of-the-box way) in a MSWindows 
world is not helping to spread the use of Ada and related tools. Is a 
setup like the one used for the GNAT GPL suite not much better?)

Regards,

Rob Groen