[omniORB] Plz Help error -NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'anyExample.idl'

[Martin T.]

pra deep wrote:
> Hello Friends,
> 
> I m a student and just started Corba.I have installed OMNIORB for 
> WindowsXP and Working with VC++6.0 .I have installed ORB as per 
> instruction given in Readme file and started name service in a console 
> Its giving output......
> 
> "Starting omniNames for the first time.
> Wrote initial log file.
> Read log file successfully.
> Root context is 
> IOR:010000002b00000049444c3a6f6d672e6f72672f436f734e616d696e672f
> 4e616d696e67436f6e746578744578743a312e300000010000000000000060000000010102000c00
> 00003139322e3136382e312e3200f90a00000b0000004e616d655365727669636500020000000000
> 0000080000000100000000545441010000001c000000010000000100010001000000010001050901
> 01000100000009010100
> Checkpointing Phase 1: Prepare.
> Checkpointing Phase 2: Commit.
> Checkpointing completed."
> 
> 
> Now when i run the nmake command in given examples its giving fatal error
> 
> error -NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'anyExample.idl'
> 


First and off topic: Why are you using VC++6? VC++9 Express Edition is 
free as far as I understand.

* There is no need to start the naming service yet if you can't get the 
examples to compile.

* You may want to start with the simplest example, it's in the directory 
echo. The file eg1.cc:
// eg1.cc - This is the source code of example 1 used in Chapter 2
//          "The Basics" of the omniORB user guide.
...

* As for your error message: You need omniidl.exe to build the c++ stubs 
from the .idl file: [omniidl -bcxx echo.idl]


br,
Martin