[omniORB] FW: VC++ 6.0 makes error C1010 when the skeletton is added to the project

[Pánczél Levente]

Hello!
 
Sorry, I have two reasons to resend this letter: the first is that I forgot to actually attach the project I will be writing about. The second is, that I have read the mail archive, and will get back to this point later.
 
 
These are my first steps using OmniORB: I'm looking for a suitable ORB for my company.
Though I might have misread things, I've made awful experiences with OmniORB: I can't get anything to work.
 
My main problem now is, that the Visual C++ 6.0 project attached does not compile. To be more exact, I don't even think it passes preprocessing, though I never wrote a #.
Symptoms are the following: I'm writing the GUI Client to a very simple component (I'm using MFC for the GUI). I have the binary distribution of OmniORB 4.2 "installed", and set up everything just as described in README.Win32. Without the skeleton (calc_sk.c) in the project: everything is compiling, only the linker is worried about the missing symbols located in the skel. So I include the calc_sk.c (I changed the file extension using appropriate parameters to omniidl so that programs recognize it as a C/C++ file). And then I always get the error C1010 on this file: unexpected end of file while looking for precompiled header directive. Well this sounded too unintelligible for me to track down the problem, so I commented all the contents of calc_sk.c, and most surprisingly got the same fatal error again. Actually if I add any file to the source files, it never reaches compilation stage (even a blank, or a syntactically invalid C/C++ file generates the same error, and no others; that's why I think it is raised by the preprocessor). I can build the example programs fine, but I can't build my MFC-based client.
I read the relevant parts of the mailing list, and found a solution seeming useful: to #include <stdafx.h> in calc_sk.c. The pieces came together, but it's still not working:
The compiler first compiles stdafx.cpp and produces so the precompiled header for the project. And the it continues with compiling calc_sk.c but fails with a fatal error C1853: Debug/FarCalc2.pch' is not a precompiled header file created with this compiler. Not with this compiler? Heh? The same make has created the file 100 ms ago. I'm rather bored of what VC++ 6.0 and OmniORB accomplish to do against me... :(
I find this is horrible. Please tell me, if you know the solution!
 
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Another problem I could not solve involves Linux. On another PC I'm using a Suse Linux 8.0 distribution. I built OmniORB for it using configure. I can build all the examples, but cannot compile outside of the build-tree of OmniORB, 'cos I can't figure the external dependencies and required #define-s out. README wrote that the makefiles in the example source directories should give me an idea of what to do, but they don't: they don't work without the top-level makefile configure, wich is too large and unintelligible for me. I found a shell-script obuildtree (which can make a build-tree for me, I hope; but I still don't get how to link my own makefiles to it).
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Thanks for you patience:
Pánczél Levente
Levente.Panczel at compuworx.hu
 
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