[omniORB] Building omniORB 4.0 on OpenVMS 7.3-1 and Solaris 8...

[Shotton, Glenn]

Has anyone else managed to build omniORB 4.0 on OpenVMS 7.3-1?

So far, I'm not having much success. I'm using Compaq C++ V6.5-004, MMK and
Python 1.5.2 V007, which I've rebuilt under VMS 7.3-1.

Here is a list of the problems I've come across so far:

OMNIORBROOT:[SRC.TOOL.OMNIIDL.CXX.CCCP]CCCP.C
- Cannot find include file '<omniconfig.h>'
I solved this by changing the DIR_CINCLUDES line in DIR.MMS from [] to
[INCLUDE], but I then had to change a line in ALLOCA.C to include "config.h"
rather than <config.h>.

OMNIORBROOT:[SRC.LIB.OMNIORB2.ORBCORE]
CORBADFLOAT.CC, CORBAGFLOAT.CC and CORBAIEEEFLOAT.CC could not open include
files <omniORB3/CORBA_sysdep.h> and <omniORB3/CORBA_basetypes.h>.
I changed these to <omniORB4/...>, i.e. from omniORB3 to omniORB4. That
seemed to work.

Then, when trying to link OMNIIDL.EXE, the file
PYTHON_OLB:CONFIG_INITTAB.OBJ could not be found. Sure enough, it doesn't
exist - even after a full rebuild of Python.

If I remove it from the PYTHON.OPT file, OMNIIDL.EXE will link (sort of: it
gives numerous undefined symbols the first time you try, but seems to
succeed the second time around!) - it just gives a 'No module named cxx'
error when used...

I'm hitting a different problem on Solaris 8 too, using Sun Workshop 4.2
compilers: I get about 6000 undefined symbols when trying to link
_omniidlmodule.so.1.0.

If anyone has any good ideas, I'd be grateful!
Best regards,
Glenn

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Glenn Shotton
Senior Applications Developer
Advantica
Ashby Road, Loughborough LE11 3GR


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