I am working on a project developed in ADA on windows xp using GPS-GNAT 2006 and must port it to windows 7 however when trying to upgrade to a newer version of GPS-GNAT (2008+) the ada code throws exceptions, but on the 2006 version it runs but GPS-GNAT 2006 has issues with hitting breakpoints, opening the IDE, the open project button, etc. My question is are there known compatibility issues with Win7 and GPS-GNAT 2006? And what should be the best course of action to get this old code running on windows 7?
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You are mixing two things here: the GNAT compiler itself (for which you might be stuck with an older version indeed), and the GPS IDE, which you can upgrade independently of GNAT. As others have suggested, please upgrade to GPL 2015 for GPS, and keep the old compiler.