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- From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
- Subject: Re: JANUS compiler
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.234049.15452@seas.gwu.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec21.053113.6598@runx.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:40:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.053113.6598@runx.oz.au> johnj@runx.oz.au (John Jameson) writes:
- >
- >I have a number of Windows 3.X display primitives written in C++
- >and wish to access them from an Ada application. My thoughts are
- >to package the primitives as a DLL and use an Ada compiler which
- >has good bindings to the Windows APIs. A colleague has recommended
- >the JANUS Ada compiler - if anyone has used this compiler and can
- >report on the general quality of the product and specifically the
- >Windows API integration I would be very grateful to hear from them.
- >
- I haven't seen the Janus Windows version, but the Meridian one is a
- pretty decent piece of work. I presume that you can use a "thin" binding
- to the Windows API, that is, a direct Ada equivalent to each Windows
- call.
-
- Good luck.
-
- Mike Feldman
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