[omniORB] Compiling on Win32 with cygwin B20

[Jake Morrison]

Hi Mikhail,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikhail Soukhanov [mailto:mik@astra.relline.ru]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 7:28 PM
> To: Jacob.Morrison@cdc.com
> Cc: omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com
> Subject: Re: [omniORB] Compiling on Win32 with cygwin B20
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> Hello, jake!
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> Jake Morrison wrote:
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> > I just finished compiling omniORB for the first time
> > and I thought I would pass along some hints to the next guy :-)
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> > I am using omniORB 2.7.1 with Win NT 4.0 SP3,
> > MS VC++ 6.0 SP1 and Cygwin B20.1.
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> Great! I am just wondering because I have read on another ORB-related
> mail list that cygwin is not thread-enabled or thread-safe or =
something
> alike and that mingw32 should be used instead. Is this information
> outdated? Also, would you think it possible (and how easy) to use
> mingw32 for omniORB?

Just to clarify, I am only using Cygwin for the build process, i.e. GNU =
make.
I am compiling with MS Visual C++ (not that I like it).

It would be interesting to see if Mingw32 could do it.

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> > I ran into a problem running the second example client (eg2_clt).
> > If I include single quotes around the IOR string that the server
> > spits out, the client fails with "Caught a system exception.".
> > Without the quotes, everything works fine.
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> I think that quotes should not be put into the command-line argument =
at
> all. At least, all the examples I have seen (not omniORB only) do not.

Well, the example programs print out the IOR with quotes around it, and =
the
examples in the README file use the single quotes, so it is an easy =
mistake
to make while cutting and pasting.

Maybe the examples should be changed to skip printing the quotes, as =
they
cause problems with the brain-dead shell on NT.

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> Best regards,
> 		Mikhail

Regards,
Jake

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