[omniORB] Porting 2.7.0 to Borland C++Builder

[Sai-Lai Lo]

Mikhail,

Thanks for the effort. I've put your zip file into:
    ftp://ftp.uk.research.att.com/pub/omniORB/contrib/omniORB_2.7.0-bcb_3.0.zip

I suggest you try static link all libraries first and defer the building of
DLLs later. Things are quite tricky with the DLLs.

At this stage, I would prefer not to include the Borland specific mods into
the source tree until there is some evidence that the example programs run.
Nevertheless, there is already Borland specific code in the omnithread
library. I think the omnithread library works OK with Borland.

Regards,

Sai-Lai

>>>>> Mikhail Soukhanov writes:

> Hi!
> I have been trying to adjust omniORB's make files to get it compile with
> Borland C++Builder command-line tools (after applying Thomas'
> modifications to the source) but temporarily gave up because
> command-line tools seem to have a lot more bugs than the IDE, especially
> in the link phase. First, tlink (2.5.0.0) can not link omniidl2 at all
> exiting with unknown fatal error. Second, all DLLs have to be linked
> against VCL library, else they crash at program start-up. Third (but not
> the last), there is always a number of unresolved external symbols which
> do not appear with IDE link. No luck so far.

> By that time, omniORB 2.7.0 was out, so I decided to transfer the same
> Thomas' modifications and try to build it under IDE. It took not so much
> time, but the current split of DLLs added to the mess with
> _OMNIORB_*_NTDLL_IMPORT macros. Also, some tricky bug with expanding
> inline class methods popped up (had to introduce _CORBA_INLINE_FN and
> _CORBA_OUT_OF_LINE macros to work around it). At last, I made omniidl2
> compile and run; omnithreads, omniORB, omniDynamic and omniNames compile
> but the latter hangs when started.

> Unfortunately, for the next couple of weeks I have some other work at
> hand and meanwhile will not be able to investigate the problem further.
> Can anybody look into it? I have collected all files modified for BCB in
> the ZIP archive. Those are to be overlaid over the original 2.7.0
> distribution. The archive is accessible at
> <http://astra.relline.ru./devel/omniORB_2.7.0-bcb_3.0.zip> or I will
> mail it directly to anybody interested and answer any questions I can. 

> By the way, could omniORB maintainers be so kind to add Borland specific
> modifications to the main source distribution (none of the patches seems
> to disturb other compilers stuff). This will save some work while trying
> to port each new version.

> Best regards, and I would like to hear any comments soon,

> 				Mikhail Soukhanov <mik@astra.relline.ru.>



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