[omniORB] Build omniOrb in LynxOS

[Jessie Ragsdale]

omniORB3 builds quite easily for LynxOS 3.1 for the power-pc processor.
I just followed the instructions in the "PORTING" file,
created the Lynx specific files, and everything compiled OK.
I have run omniNames many times on LynxOS 3.1 and it works well with
VisiBroker, TAO, and omniORB clients.
The only problem that I encountered was in the omnithread library in posix.cc.
omni_thread::join() can call pthread_join with a status parameter of 0 and
LynxOS  insists on an actual void** parameter.
Once I corrected that, I haven't encountered any problems using omniORB3 on
LynxOS 3.1.  I have never tried it with LynxOS 2.5 though.

Jessie

Duncan Grisby wrote:

> On Friday 13 July, bnoliveira@netcabo.pt wrote:
>
> > Please, I want to know if doesn't exist problem to build OmniOrb in
> > LynxOS 2.5 with g++ 2.8.1 and how much main memory is necessary for
> > OmniOrb + LynxOS, because the goal is to port it into a network
> > element with 64 Mbytes of main memory. I appreciate that someone
> > that had build OmniOrb under LynxOS to send me some information that
> > can help me to do this.
>
> I'm not aware of an up to date port of omniORB for LynxOS. There is
> some very out of date information at
>
>   http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/lynxOS_port.txt
>
> I'm not sure if recent versions of omniORB will compile with g++
> 2.8.1. It's a long time since we tried it, but it might well still
> work.
>
> Memory shouldn't be too much of a problem for you. The omniORB 3
> runtime is around 1 to 2 Mbytes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Duncan.
>
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