[omniORB] Can't run OmniPy out of the box? (_omniidl module problem)

[Keeping, Benjamin]

Hi, 

I am running on Windows 2000, 32 bit, and have installed omniORB-4.1.1-x86-win32-vc7.zip (since that's the version of VC we use) and omniORBpy-3.1-x86-win32-python2.5.zip.

Having extracted the contents of these zips alongside each other under C:\projects [see footnote] and added C:\projects\omniORBpy-3.1\lib\python and C:\projects\omniORBpy-3.1\lib\x86_win32 to my PYTHONPATH, and C:\projects\omniORB-4.1.1\bin\x86_win32 to my PATH (I found that having C:\projects\omniORBpy-3.1\bin\x86_win32 in my PATH seemed to cause problems?) I now get the following error when trying to compile my first IDL file with "omniidl -bpython example_echo.idl ": 
omniidl: Could not import back-end 'python'
omniidl: Maybe you need to use the -p option?
omniidl: (The error was 'No module named python')
>From the documentation of omniidl, I can see that it will be trying to load the python module omniidl_be.python here. Running "import omniidl_be.python" from the Python interpreter gives me slightly more information - the problem is "import _omniidl" at line 97 of lib\python\omniidl\main.py. I can find nothing in either zip matching this name, i.e. containing "_omniidl". What am I doing wrong? Do I need to build something after all?
Ben Keeping
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Footnote: I did see the following instruction in the README:

"If you do not have Autoconf support on your platform (e.g. on
Windows), you must install the omniORBpy source in the $TOP/src/lib
directory of a working omniORB 4.1 tree. Make sure the directory is
called omniORBpy -- if you downloaded a release archive you must
rename the directory to remove the version from the directory name.

Once you have the source in the right place, simply do a make export
in the $TOP/src/lib/omniORBpy directory."

But assumed this didn't apply as I am not building anything from source.

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