[omniORB] Newbie: Compiling problems omniORB-4.0.5 using Cygwin, WinXP, MS VC7.0

[Roland Goecke]

Hi,

I am trying to compile omniORB-4.0.5 on a Windows XP machine with 
Cygwin, Python2.4 and MS Visual Studio 7.0. I followed the instructions 
in README.win32.txt, selected the configuration

platform = x86_nt_4.0_vs_7

in config/config.mk and set the path to my Python2.4 installation in 
\mk\platforms\x86_nt_4.0_vs_7.mk.

omniORB seems to compile fine for a while until I get the following 
error message:

c:\omniORB-4.0.5\bin\x86_win32\omkdepend.exe: warning: idlpython.cc, 
line 172: unknown directive == "#warning "Please use an up-to-date 
version of gcc! (>2.91 recommended)""
c:\omniORB4.0.5\bin\x86_win32\omkdepend.exe: warning: (from 
idlpython.cc) c:\progra~1\python2.4\include\Python.h: 21: #error 
"Something's broken. UCHAR_MAX should be defined in limits.h"
c:\omniORB4.0.5\bin\x86_win32\omkdepend.exe: warning: (from 
idlpython.cc) c:\progra~1\python2.4\include\Python.h: 25: #error 
"Python's source code assumes C's unsigned char is an 8-bit type."
c:\omniORB4.0.5\bin\x86_win32\omkdepend.exe: warning: (from 
idlpython.cc) c:\progra~1\python2.4\include\Python.h: 34: #error 
"Python.h requires that stdio.h define NULL."
c:\omniORB4.0.5\bin\x86_win32\omkdepend.exe: warning: (from 
idlpython.cc) c:\progra~1\python2.4\include\Python.h: 367: #error 
"omniidl requires Python 1.5.2 or higher"
+ rm -f static/omnithread.lib
+ ../../../bin/x86_win32/libwrapper -gnuwin32 static/omnithread.lib 
static/nt.o
+ install -c static/omnithread.lib ../../../lib/x86_win32
+ rm -f debug/omnithreadd.lib
+ ../../../bin/x86_win32/libwrapper -gnuwin32 debug/omnithreadd.lib 
debug/nt.o
+ install -c debug/omnithread.lib ../../../lib/x86_win32
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<string>", line 1, in ?
   File "c:\Program Files\Python2.4\lib\compileall.py", line 15, in ?
     import os
   File "C:\Program Files\Python2.4\lib\os.py", line 651, in ?
     import copy_reg as _copy_reg
   File "C:\Program Files\Python2.4\lib\copy_reg.py", line 7, in ?
     from types import ClassType as _ClassType
   File "c:\omniORB-4.0.5\lib\python\omniidl_be\cxx\types.py", line 29, in ?
     import string
   File "C:\Program Files\Python2.4\lib\string.py", line 83, in ?
     import re as _re
   File "C:\Program Files\Python2.4\lib\re.py", line 5, in ?
     from sre import *
   File "C:\Program Files\Python2.4\lib\sre.py", line 270, in ?
     copy_reg.pickle(_pattern_type, _pickle, _compile)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'pickle'
make[4]: *** [export] Error 1
...


I don't understand the first warning, because isn't the compilation 
supposed to happen with VS7 instead of GCC given the above mentioned 
configuration choices? Why does it crash with some Python problem?

My apologies if these are dumb questions. I have been searching through 
the mail archive but couldn't find a solution. Is the compiler somehow 
picking up the wrong paths?

Cheers,
Roland