Re: [Fresco-devel] Problem compiling Fresco-M2 on WinXP using Cygwin - Problem with omniORB not found

Roland Goecke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to compile Fresco-M2 on a WinXP system using Cygwin. My 
> first question, ideally I would like to compile it using the Visual 
> Studio 7 C/C++ compiler. Is that possible? If so, what do I need to do?
>
> If I follow the instructions in INSTALL and call configure from the 
> build directory, the configure script crashes when it comes to ORB. I 
> have omniORB installed on my machine and hope the installation is 
> correct. At least omniORB compiled without error messages and I have 
> created the environment variables and registry entries. It seems the 
> Fresco configure script finds omniORB but then it doesn't find 
> CORBA.h. Here is the relevant output from configure:
>
> configure: ORB
> checking for library containing recv... none required
> checking for omniidl... /cygdrive/c/omniORB-4.0.5/bin/x86_win32/omniidl
> configure: WARNING: Unknown OS cygwin.
> configure: WARNING: Please check the omniORB documentation to see if 
> you OS is s
> upported
> configure: WARNING: and update config/omniorb.m4.
> checking omniORB4/CORBA.h usability... no
> checking omniORB4/CORBA.h presence... no
> checking for omniORB4/CORBA.h... no
> checking omniORB3/CORBA.h usability... no
> checking omniORB3/CORBA.h presence... no
> checking for omniORB3/CORBA.h... no
> configure: error: No supported CORBA environment found!
> configure: error: /bin/bash '../../Fresco-M2/Fresco-C++/configure' 
> failed for Fr
> esco-C++
>
> I have included the paths to C:\omniORB-4.0.5\include in my INCLUDE 
> environment variable and to C:\omniORB-4.0.5\lib in LIB, but it looks 
> like CORBA.h is still not found. I have tried to run configure with 
> --with-omniorb-prefix=C:\omniORB-4.0.5 but I get the same results.
>
> I have checked the mailing list archives of the past two years and it 
> seems problems with omniORB are not unusual, but I unfortunately 
> couldn't find the solution to my problem. Any suggestions would be 
> much appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
> Roland
>
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I have no (significant) experience with Cygwin, so my only 
recommendation is that you just talk to the omniORB people on their 
freenode channel. I'm not suprised that the configure script doesn't 
like cygwin, Unix programmers often forget about their Redmond cousin ;-)