Re: [Mingw-users] Problem with Ada in MinGW GCC-6.3 release

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

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On 20/08/17 21:16, David Gressett wrote:
> The offenders found so far are
> 
> gnatmake.exe -  crashes
> gnatlink.exe - can't find the files specified on its command line
> gnatclean.exe - crashes
> gnatxref.exe - does nothing, produces no error messages
> gnatls.exe - can't find the files specified on its command line
> gnatchop.exe - can't find the files specified on its command line
> 
> gnatbind.exe and gnatkr.exe seem to behave correctly.

Since Ada might just as well be greek (a language which I do not speak) 
to me ...

> At this point, new projects that were dumped on me have eaten up all
> of my round tuits. When I get back to this, I will open an issues
> ticket for this which will contain minimal source files which are
> used to cause the failures and also the exact error messages.

... until you can do this, there isn't much I can do to investigate.  
FWIW, under wine:

  $ WINEPATH=/mingw/bin dist/staged/bin/gnatmake.exe --version; rstty
  GNATMAKE 6.3.0
  Copyright (C) 1995-2016, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A 
  PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

(and "gnatmake.exe --help", similarly, produces expected output).  
That's about the limit of the testing I can perform, unaided.  FTR, 
without "WINEPATH=/mingw/bin" it does crash, because libiconv-2.dll 
is nowhere that gnatmake.exe can find it, but I suspect that your 
issue is more fundamental than that.

I have rebuilt all of the packages, since uploading the distribution, 
to remove an accidental dependency on libmingwex-0.dll, but I don't 
believe any of the Ada tools were affected.  If it helps, I can make 
the rebuilt Ada binary package available, via your ticket, so you may 
check if the issue persists with that.

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Regards,
Keith.

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