[omniORB] Problem building OmniORB on Windows

[Damir Dezeljin]

Hi.

I tried to compile OmniORB and OmniORBPy on Windows, however I'm geting
following linkage errors:
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cl -c -O2 -MD -EHs -GS -GR -Zd -nologo -I.. -I.\..
-I..\..\..\..\include\omniORB4\internal -DUSE_omniORB_logStream -
D_OMNIORB_DYNAMIC_LIBRARY -DNTArchitecture -I. -I. -I..\..\..\..\include
-D__WIN32__ -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 -D__x86__ -D__NT__ -D__OSVERSION__=4
-Foshared\Namingdynstub.o -TpNamingdynstub.cc
   Creating library shared/omniDynamic403_rt.lib and object
shared/omniDynamic403_rt.exp
ir.o : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport)
public: static char const * const _CORBA_String_helper::empty_string"
(__imp_?empty_string at _CORBA_String_helper@@2QBDB)
irdynstub.o : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
"__declspec(dllimport) public: static char const * const
_CORBA_String_helper::empty_string" (__imp_?empty_string at _CORBA_String_helper@@2QBDB)
...
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My platform:
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- Windows 2000 PRO sp4
- MS VS.NET 2003
- Python 2.3
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I'm trying to compile today CVS checkout of omni4_0_develop branch.


Relevant ENV variables:
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INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\VC7\ATLMFC\INCLUDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\VC7\INCLUDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\VC7\PlatformSDK\include\prerelease;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
 Studio .NET 2003\VC7\PlatformSDK\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\include;

LIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\VC7\ATLMFC\LIB;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\VC7\LIB;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\VC7\PlatformSDK\lib\prerelease;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio .NET 2003\VC7\PlatformSDK\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\lib;

MSVCDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7

NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1

OS=Windows_NT

Path=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\Common7\IDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\VC7\BIN;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\Common7\Tools;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\Common7\Tools\bin\prerelease;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\bin;C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322;
C:\usr\cvs;C:\usr\gnuwin32\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\Python23;

PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86

PYTHONPATH=C:\Python23
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%TOP%\config\config.mk contains:
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platform = x86_nt_4.0_vs_7
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%TOP%\mk\platforms\x86_nt_4.0_vs_7.mk contains:
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PYTHON = /cygdrive/c/Python23/python
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Any sugestion?


10x and regards,
Dezo