Gnat for win32 does not search include and library paths

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Tue Oct 8 17:05:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 05:05, Jerry van Dijk wrote:
> 
> Christopher Faylor writes:
> 
>  > Could I have some clarification on this?  Why would the GPL make it
>  > impossible to build a cygwin-based release?  It seems like gcc is
>  > licensed under the GPL and cygwin is licensed under the GPL, so...
> 
> No doubt someone will at some point port GNAT to cygwin. Two years ago I
> could not, since it required the payment of a license fee for every user.
> That may or may not have changed, but it was the situation at the time the
> decision had to be made.

It only requires a licence fee IF you are porting proprietary software
that you will distribute. And even then, AFAIK the licence is a flat
fee. Or are you talking about GNAT needing a licence fee?


Rob

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