[omniORB] project directory structure and Makefiles

[Richard Hardgrave]

> From owner-omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com Fri Oct 19 09:31 CDT 2001
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am new to CORBA and to this list. I want to write a simpke
> application to learn about CORBA, but I want to do it in such a way
> that I can scale up the "method" to larger projects. The problem I am
> trying to solve is what is the best way to organize a project
> directory to build a project with omniORB. It will have a client and a
> server application. Also, I'm at a loss as in how to write the
> Makefiles in such a way that the stubs are properly scanned for
> dependencies with the implementation code. Could someone with a little
> experience on omniORB projects enlighten me? I'd be very greatful. I
> looked through comp.object.corba and searched through the archives,
> but could not really find anything that could help me out.

Just go to the $TOP/src/examples directory, like I did.  Pick one of
the examples (I chose echo) and clone another directory at the
same level, borrowing and editing dir.mk and all as you go.
I was not familiar with GNUmake, at the time, so I went to the GNU
site and downloaded the user's manual.  It helps!  Most of the
magic happens because of what's in the files in the $TOP/mk and
$TOP/mk/platforms directories.
Since, I've even been able to compile my application in our
ClearCase environment, so I feel very dangerous!   8^)

Good luck,

Richard

> 
> Another thing that I would like to mention is, while I compiled
> omniORB at home on my SGI Indy with IRIX 6.2 (yes I know it's old, but
> I love that box ;). I came accross an error which I managed to solve,
> but ehm... not so elegantly. I can't find the line back... maybe it
> was in a stub? Anyway, the line involved a call to
> pthread_mutexattr_settype if I remember correctly, setting the mutex
> type to PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE. I am no expert on pthreads either,
> and did a google for it. Turns out that to set this type is usually
> not necessary. So I commented out the line. Everything seems to work,
> any comments on this? (The problem was that IRIX 6.2 doesn't have the
> function).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ian.
>