Re: orbit & win32

[Emre Turkay <emre turkay bilten metu edu tr>]

On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 06:09, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
>         Well - it's untested. As Bill says we should interoperate with any
> ORB supporting GIOP - this would be really nice to test fully.
> 
>         However - it seems with ORBit2, that if you can get a cross
> platform build environment working; Cygwin32 etc. if you are slightly
> expert with such things; then you should be able to build the latest glib
> / linc / ORBit2 and use ORBit2 natively. The latest versions of glib add
> more portability code than the old versions, so again ORBit2 is likely to
> be far easier to host under Win32.
> 
>         I'd be most interested in integrating any win32 port patches for
> linc / ORBit2 that you can come up with; also it might be feasible to
> create a better 'unix domain socket like' efficient win32 specific local
> transport for 'linc' which would also be much fun; it'd be nice to compete
> in the win32 world - and indeed is a prerequisite for the more grandiose
> and amusing pipe-dream of porting Gnome apps to Win32.
> 

Now Im using evaluation edition of Visibroker, well someday it's time
will end. It is very expensive to use it in the development phase of my
project.

High possibly I'll turn to TAO or Orbit when time arrives.  Then I can
try to compile orbit on win32-cygwin, if someone help me for the
problems which I will face.

emre