[omniORB] Cygwin?

[Duncan Grisby]

On Sunday 1 April, "Kevin Williams" wrote:

> Is it possible to use OmniORB in a Cygwin-based project?  As much as I love
> Visual C++, I have chosen to use GCC (on several platforms, including Win32)
> for my next project.  However, I can't seem to build a Cygwin-native version
> of OmniORB.  So, is there some way that I can use the VC++ version?

You definitely won't be able to use the VC++ binaries with GCC -- the
binary formats are different. Assuming Gygwin's GCC is relatively
complete, and supports things like thread-safe exceptions, it should
be possible to port omniORB to compile with it. It might not be too
hard to start from the Windows platform files and create a Cygwin
version.

Cheers,

Duncan.

-- 
 -- Duncan Grisby  \  Research Engineer  --
  -- AT&T Laboratories Cambridge          --
   -- http://www.uk.research.att.com/~dpg1 --