Re: IDL compilation

[Bowie Owens <bowie owens csiro au>]

jiri-subscribed-lists wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I am trying to compile a demonstrating application from the book
> Henning, Vinoski: Advanced CORBA Programming with C++
> with orbitcpp-1.3.8, ORBit2-2.8.3, gcc-3.3.2.
>
> example.idl:
>
> struct TimeOfDay {
>  short hour;   // 0 - 23
>  short minute; // 0 - 59
>  short second; // 0 - 59
> };
>
> interface Time {
>  TimeOfDay get_gmt();
> };
>  
A minor limitation of orbitcpp is that it can't generate legitimate C++ 
code for IDL which does not have a top level module. Please wrap the 
above IDL code in a module:

module X {
...
};


> $ orbit-idl-2 -l cpp example.idl
>  
Orbitcpp uses the C binding to implement the C++ binding. So you must 
also execute:

orbit-idl-2 example.idl

This will generate a .h and some .c files that must be compiled and 
linked with the C++ code.


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