[omniORB] Can't build omniORB 4.2.2 with Visual Studio 2017

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 02:08 +0000, Dalecki, Janusz via omniORB-list
wrote:

> I am having trouble to generate OmniORB dlls and libs.
> 
> I am running it on Windows 7 Dell Laptop platform 64bit version with
> Visual Studio 2017 community edition.

This talk of 64 bit makes me think that you are wanting to compile a 64
bit version of omniORB...

> I have downloaded omniORB 4.2.2, Cygwin64 and Python 36_32

...but Python 36_32 sounds like you have a 32 bit version of Python.
You MUST use a 64 bit Python if you are building a 64 bit omniORB.

> After following instructions from README.win32.txt:
> ·        setting platform = x86_win32_vs_15 in config.mk,
> ·        PYTHON = /cygdrive/c/Python/Python36-32 in
> x86_win32_vs_15.mk

No. PYTHON needs to be set to the Python EXECUTABLE. The .exe, not the
directory it is in.

[...]
> make[3]: /cygdrive/c/Python/Python36-32: Command not found

Is that not a hint that you need to give it a command to run, not a
directory?

Duncan.

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