Re: orbitcpp and orbitcpp's integration

[Bowie Owens <bowie owens csiro au>]

Cuteanu Victor wrote:

>  Hello Mr. Owens,
>
> Thanks very much for your email.
> First I have to say you that I don't know which is the difference between ORBit and orbitcpp.
> Ok, I know that orbitcpp is for C++ language.
>  
A quick intro to the technologies. ORBit implements the CORBA C language 
bindings. It implements most of the CORBA 2.4 spec and is a fast, 
lightweight ORB for local or network communication. The latest version 
is 2.9.0 (I think, I haven't upgraded for a little while). orbitcpp 
implements the C++ language bindings using the C language bindings. As 
such the generated C++ code is just a wrapper for the C code. The latest 
version of orbitcpp is now 1.3.8.

> Also I don't know which versions should I use. Here I have to say you that im am using RedHat 
> 7.3, maybe its important.
>  
ORBit and orbitcpp can be built and installed on a variety of operating 
systems. I tend to use GARNOME for building.

> Regarding header files, it is clear for me that I have to use them.
> But I don't know how to generate my own makefile and program with orbitcpp.
> No documentations in this way I found.
>  
http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/orbit-docs/orbit/x278.html#echo-compilation

Except the documentation is slightly out of date. Change the variable 
definitions to:

CFLAGS=`pkg-config ORBit-2.0-cpp --cflags`
LDFLAGS=`pkg-config ORBit-2.0-cpp --libs`

Additionally for orbitcpp IDLOUT needs to also include X-cpp.cc (where X 
is the basename of your IDL file).

> First I would like to make a simple independent orbitcpp example , and just after this works to envolve KDE in this problem...
>
> Could You help me in this way ?
>  
Definitely start by looking at the beginners documentation:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/orbit-docs/orbit/book1.html

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