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Dear Adaists:

Janus/Ada requires a Microsoft Software Developers Kit (SDK) and a
compatible linker, available in e.g. Visual C++.

Is or are the choice or choices of the Microsoft version or versions
important? Janus performs actual compilations. However, perhaps a new
64-bit version of Microsoft link might produce executables which are incompatible with 32-bit Windows, or even incompatible with an old
64-bit version of Windows.

Visual Studio 2026
and
Build Tools for Visual Studio 2026
are available from
HTTPS://VisualStudio.MicroSoft.com
and old versions are available from HTTPS://VisualStudio.MicroSoft.com/vs/older-downloads
. . .
Visual Studio 2022;
Visual Studio 2019;
Visual Studio 2017;
and
Microsoft Build Tools 2015 Update 3.

The oldest versions are not easy to fetch.

I programmed a useful Ada program. The chief version of Windows which
it runs on is 64-bit Windows 10. Compatibility with 64-bit Windows 7
would be practical. We do not have an overriding need to be compatible
with other old versions of Windows (e.g. 32-bit Windows Vista), but we
also do not have an overriding need to be incompatible.

Impressions as to
* are all MS SDKs equivalent
or
does a choice affect compatibilities
or
* speeds
and as to
* how much hassle there would be in adapting Lkw to run with a version
of the MS SDK which it was not designed to invoke would be
appreciated.

Yours faithfully,
Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
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On Fri, 8 May 2026 09:38:30 -0000 (UTC), Nicholas Collin Paul de
Gloucester wrote:

Janus/Ada requires a Microsoft Software Developers Kit (SDK) and a
compatible linker, available in e.g. Visual C++.

I recommend sticking to Linux for serious development. Not just in
Ada, but generally.
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In comp.lang.ada Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote: |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"I recommend sticking to Linux for serious development. Not just in|
|Ada, but generally." | |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Thanks. I did create a program on GNU/Linux which I want to build an
executable for via Janus/Ada, which uses MS SDK for linking. Microsoft
is bad, but we do have Windows and other users might have only
Windows.

This program does not print, whereas my good "Canon Pixma GM4050
Printer Mono Print Multi-Function MegaTank Wireless" printer does not
support Linux (other than Android), and various applications do not
support Linux, so I have a practical reason (coercion) to use
Windows.

GNAT is not perfect. Cf. Tom Moran sent:
Subject: Re: segfault with large-ish array with GNAT
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:46:19 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <hntlcq$u1t$1@speranza.aioe.org>
-
###########################################################################
#"> So here's me being naive: I would have thought that Ada (or GNAT #

specifically) would be smart enough to allocate memory for large # objects such as my long array in a transparent way so that I don't # have to worry about it, thus (in the Ada spirit) making it harder to # screw up. (Like not having to worry about whether arguments to # subprograms are passed by value or by reference--it just happens.) #
#
But it seems that I will have to allocate memory for large objects # using pointers (and thus take the memory from the heap). Is that # right? #

# A couple of years ago I wrote some code to look at the (large) Netflix # #data set. It used Janus Ada and ran in a 2 GB Windows system. I thought# #about switching to Gnat (for faster floating point) but discovered that # #would require changing all large arrays to heap allocation, so I dropped # #that idea. IMO, that's a ridiculous limitation in this day and age." # ###########################################################################

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On Fri, 8 May 2026 21:56:54 -0000 (UTC), Nicholas Collin Paul de
Gloucester wrote:

... we do have Windows and other users might have only Windows.

I hope they’re paying you enough. Windows is not something I would
support for fun.
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Please do not cross-post english messages to fr.comp.lang.ada
Those of use who can read english are subscribed to both groups (and
hence receive the message twice), others are not interested...

Thank you,

Le 09/05/2026 à 07:40, Lawrence D’Oliveiro a écrit :

On Fri, 8 May 2026 21:56:54 -0000 (UTC), Nicholas Collin Paul de
Gloucester wrote:

... we do have Windows and other users might have only Windows.

I hope they’re paying you enough. Windows is not something I would
support for fun.

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Pardon ! :(

news:fr.comp.lang.ada is almost inactive in a fashion which is even
worse than news:comp.lang.ada
I hope that occassional posts - even in English - to
news:fr.comp.lang.ada could incite Francophones to write in French to news:fr.comp.lang.ada
Unfortunately, French is not a competence which I have. (I had posted
in French to news:fr.comp.lang.ada but that had been a translation (of
the English original by me) by a colleague who used to work with us at
that time.)

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I am interested to get feedback on versions of MS SDK.

BlueWorld Hosting announced that it will publish archives which will
go back further in time. I will make a copy of that fr.comp.lang.ada
archive, to publish. I am not able to announce it in French. A
Francophone is welcome to write that announcement to be.
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In comp.lang.ada Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote: |-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|"On Fri, 8 May 2026 21:56:54 -0000 (UTC), Nicholas Collin Paul de|
|Gloucester wrote: |
| |

... we do have Windows and other users might have only Windows.|

| |
|I hope they’re paying you enough." | |-----------------------------------------------------------------|

Thanks. I am not paid enough, but that is life! This program is
gratis. Payments for it to me would cost me more than making it be
gratis.

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|" Windows is not something I would |
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