[omniORB] Could execute omniidl -bpython myidl.idl

Stefan Seefeld seefeld@sympatico.ca
Thu, 08 Feb 2001 10:57:14 -0500


Gary Liu wrote:
> 
> What kind of env variable is wrong as I do "omniidl -bpython myidl.idl"
> and get error:
> 
> -------------Start Error Msg---------------------------------
> omniidl: Could not import back-end `python'
> omniidl: Maybe you need to use the -p option?
> omniidl: (The error was `No module named python')
> -------------End of Msg------------------------------------

as omniidl reports, it can't find the python backend. Either you didn't
install omniORBpy, or your PYTHONPATH environment variable isn't complete. 
I guess the mentioned '-p' option lets you specify a path where omniidl 
looks for backend modules.

Stefan