Building a release ------------------ The static AWS libraries are always built. The shared libraries are built by default if the platform supports them (this is automatically detected). If you have not installed XML/Ada in the standard directory and plan to build AWS with SOAP support you must be sure that ADA_PROJECT_PATH points to the XML/Ada projects. See XML/Ada documentation. Then to build AWS: $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/AdaCore/aws $ cd aws $ make setup build install For information about all possible settings, look at make's variables in makefile.conf. Note that you can find more information about the build procedure in the AWS User's Guide. This release requires an Ada compiler supporting some Ada 2012 features. It is possible to build this release starting with the following compilers: GNAT Pro 7.4.2 GNAT GPL 2016 Edition To build the documentation in HTML, PDF and plain text formats you need to have a working Sphinx package installed on your system. $ make build-doc Building on Windows ------------------- On Windows, you can build from the standard Windows command line using the provided scripts win32\build.cmd. The argument is the path where AWS is to be installed. It is recommended to install AWS with the compiler, so for example: c:> win32\build.cmd c:\gnat\2016 An alternative is to install either the Cygwin or MSYS toolset. In this case the procedure described above using 'make' can be used.