[omniORB] Linking problems in MSVC++ 5.0

[Dee Jay Randall]

  That appears to be it. It compiles and links now. Thanks so much
for your help. Sorry it was a stupid thing like a define.

  Thanks again,

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On 10 Nov 1998, Sai-Lai Lo wrote:

> >>>>> Dee Jay Randall writes:
> 
> >   Hmmm. I've only installed omniORB 2.6.1. I don't know how I could
> > possibly have gotten pre-2.6.x runtime libraries. And I don't get
> > an undefined symbol: omniORB_2_6.
> 
> >   I get 31 LINK2001: unresolved external symbol "blahblah" errors.
> > None of them are for the symbol omniORB_2_6.
> 
> >   I downloaded omniORB_2_6_1_x86_win32.zip on November 4, so I can't
> > see old files as the problem. I am re-downloading the files just to be
> > sure. I would be surprised if that is the problem.
> 
> >   I can find omniORB_2_6 in omniinternal.h, and my application
> > doesn't complain about not finding it, so I think it is finding
> > that symbol no problem.
> 
> >   Looking inside some of the include files.... Perhaps
> > "HAS_Cplusplus_Namespace" is not being defined somehow?
> 
> Indeed this is the problem. Looking back at your previous mail, you have 
> 
> /D "_MSC_VER"
> 
> in the compiler command line option.
> 
> Why is it there? It is an internal compiler macro identifying the version
> of the compiler. The value of this macro is used internally to see if
> namespace can be enabled. MSVC++ 5 has _MSC_VER=1000 I think.
> 
> Just delete the _MSC_VER option and rebuild everything should solve your
> problem I hope.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sai-Lai
> 
> 
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