[omniORB] Using omniidl to generate stubs ...

[Marcus MacWilliam]

Hello,

I am trying to build a project that was written 10+ years ago,
with a newer version of OmniORB (4.1.6), on a Windows 7
machine with Visual Studio 2010, for 32-bit.

I have successfully downloaded the ORB ZIP, and built the
entire project, with 'make export'.

Part of the makefile involves running omniidl to generate the
stub files from our IDL file, for compilation into the server.
The output from our build, and the error message, are below:

Running command: C:\omniORB-4.1.6\bin\x86_win32\omniidl -bcxx -C\\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt -Wbh=_s.h -Wbs=_s.cpp \\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt\OO-Toolkit.idl
omniidl: Could not import back-end 'cxx'
omniidl: Maybe you need to use the -p option?
omniidl: (The error was 'No module named cxx')

Can anyone explain why this did not work?

Cheers,

--
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Tel: [phone], ext 2289, Mob: [phone].
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[Marcus MacWilliam]

I have also tried adding the -p option:

Running command: C:\omniORB-4.1.6\bin\x86_win32\omniidl -bcxx -pC:\omniORB-4.1.6\lib\python -C\\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt -Wbh=_s.h -Wbs=_s.cpp \\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt\OO-Toolkit.idl
omniidl: Could not import back-end 'cxx'
omniidl: Maybe you need to use the -p option?
omniidl: (The error was 'No module named cxx')

Marcus A.T MacWilliam, Senior Software Engineer. 1Spatial Ltd.
Tel: [phone], ext 2289, Mob: [phone].
E-Mail: marcus.macwilliam at 1spatial.com<mailto:marcus.macwilliam at 1spatial.com> Skype:marcus.macwilliam

Tennyson House, 7 Cambridge Business Park, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ.
Registered in England No. 4785688, VAT Reg. No. 135539408.
Website: http://www.1spatial.com/ E-mail: info at 1spatial.com<mailto:info at 1spatial.com>

On 25/01/13 16:56, Marcus MacWilliam wrote:
Hello,

I am trying to build a project that was written 10+ years ago,
with a newer version of OmniORB (4.1.6), on a Windows 7
machine with Visual Studio 2010, for 32-bit.

I have successfully downloaded the ORB ZIP, and built the
entire project, with 'make export'.

Part of the makefile involves running omniidl to generate the
stub files from our IDL file, for compilation into the server.
The output from our build, and the error message, are below:

Running command: C:\omniORB-4.1.6\bin\x86_win32\omniidl -bcxx -C\\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt -Wbh=_s.h -Wbs=_s.cpp \\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt\OO-Toolkit.idl
omniidl: Could not import back-end 'cxx'
omniidl: Maybe you need to use the -p option?
omniidl: (The error was 'No module named cxx')

Can anyone explain why this did not work?

Cheers,

--
Marcus A.T MacWilliam, Senior Software Engineer. 1Spatial Ltd.
Tel: [phone], ext 2289, Mob: [phone].
E-Mail: marcus.macwilliam at 1spatial.com<mailto:marcus.macwilliam at 1spatial.com> Skype:marcus.macwilliam

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[Marcus MacWilliam]

Adding the omnidl_be directory to -p gives a different error:

Running command: C:\omniORB-4.1.6\bin\x86_win32\omniidl -bcxx -pC:\omniORB-4.1.6\lib\python\omniidl_be -C\\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt -Wbh=_s.h -Wbs=_s.cpp \\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt\OO-Toolkit.idl
omniidl: Could not import back-end 'cxx'
omniidl: Maybe you need to use the -p option?
omniidl: (The error was 'cannot import name config')

Marcus A.T MacWilliam, Senior Software Engineer. 1Spatial Ltd.
Tel: [phone], ext 2289, Mob: [phone].
E-Mail: marcus.macwilliam at 1spatial.com<mailto:marcus.macwilliam at 1spatial.com> Skype:marcus.macwilliam

Tennyson House, 7 Cambridge Business Park, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ.
Registered in England No. 4785688, VAT Reg. No. 135539408.
Website: http://www.1spatial.com/ E-mail: info at 1spatial.com<mailto:info at 1spatial.com>

On 25/01/13 17:18, Marcus MacWilliam wrote:
I have also tried adding the -p option:

Running command: C:\omniORB-4.1.6\bin\x86_win32\omniidl -bcxx -pC:\omniORB-4.1.6\lib\python -C\\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt -Wbh=_s.h -Wbs=_s.cpp \\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt\OO-Toolkit.idl
omniidl: Could not import back-end 'cxx'
omniidl: Maybe you need to use the -p option?
omniidl: (The error was 'No module named cxx')

Marcus A.T MacWilliam, Senior Software Engineer. 1Spatial Ltd.
Tel: [phone], ext 2289, Mob: [phone].
E-Mail: marcus.macwilliam at 1spatial.com<mailto:marcus.macwilliam at 1spatial.com> Skype:marcus.macwilliam

Tennyson House, 7 Cambridge Business Park, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ.
Registered in England No. 4785688, VAT Reg. No. 135539408.
Website: http://www.1spatial.com/ E-mail: info at 1spatial.com<mailto:info at 1spatial.com>

On 25/01/13 16:56, Marcus MacWilliam wrote:
Hello,

I am trying to build a project that was written 10+ years ago,
with a newer version of OmniORB (4.1.6), on a Windows 7
machine with Visual Studio 2010, for 32-bit.

I have successfully downloaded the ORB ZIP, and built the
entire project, with 'make export'.

Part of the makefile involves running omniidl to generate the
stub files from our IDL file, for compilation into the server.
The output from our build, and the error message, are below:

Running command: C:\omniORB-4.1.6\bin\x86_win32\omniidl -bcxx -C\\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt -Wbh=_s.h -Wbs=_s.cpp \\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt\OO-Toolkit.idl
omniidl: Could not import back-end 'cxx'
omniidl: Maybe you need to use the -p option?
omniidl: (The error was 'No module named cxx')

Can anyone explain why this did not work?

Cheers,

--
Marcus A.T MacWilliam, Senior Software Engineer. 1Spatial Ltd.
Tel: [phone], ext 2289, Mob: [phone].
E-Mail: marcus.macwilliam at 1spatial.com<mailto:marcus.macwilliam at 1spatial.com> Skype:marcus.macwilliam

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[Duncan Grisby]

Post by Marcus MacWilliam
I am trying to build a project that was written 10+ years ago,
with a newer version of OmniORB (4.1.6), on a Windows 7
machine with Visual Studio 2010, for 32-bit.
I have successfully downloaded the ORB ZIP, and built the
entire project, with 'make export'.

Presumably that completed without error?

Post by Marcus MacWilliam
Part of the makefile involves running omniidl to generate the
stub files from our IDL file, for compilation into the server.
Running command: C:\omniORB-4.1.6\bin\x86_win32\omniidl -bcxx -C\
\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt -Wbh=_s.h -Wbs=_s.cpp \
\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt\OO-Toolkit.idl
omniidl: Could not import back-end 'cxx'

Can you build the echo example? Go to src/examples/echo and run make.
Does that work? If so, how does its omniidl command line differ from
yours?

Try adding a -v flag to omniidl, so it outputs more information about
what's going on:

c:\omniORB-4.1.6\bin\x86_win32\omniidl -v -bcxx ...

What is in c:\omniORB-4.1.6\lib\python\omniidl_be\ ?

Duncan.

[Marcus MacWilliam]

Duncan,

I now believe it is an environment problem. I have successfully
run omniidl on OO-Toolkit.idl with the command line options:

-bcxx -Wbh=_s.h -Wbs=_s.cpp -C

in a windows environment started via the shortcut for a VS10,
from the Start menu. This succeeds, and has a PATH:

Path=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
10.0\Common7\IDE\;C:\Program
Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\BIN;C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsof
t Visual Studio
10.0\Common7\Tools;C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319
;C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio 10.0\VC\VCPackages;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\b
in\NETFX 4.0 Tools;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin;C:\Wi
ndows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPo
werShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;M:\data\bat;C:\Cygwin\bin;C:\Pro
gra~2\Java\jdk1.7.0_7\bin;C:\eclipse-java-juno-SR1-win32-x86_64-1spatial;C:\apac
he-maven-3.0.3\bin;C:\Progra~2\FME2013
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC

However when it is run from my GDE (Gothic Development Environment) via
the makefile it fails, PATH is:

Path=\\gothic-samba\gothic\unix\utilsupp\v4-6;\\gothic-samba\gothic\unix\devsupp\v4-8;c:\progra~2\Ja
va\jdk1.6.0_29\bin;\\1spatial.local\shares\python\Python-1.5;C:\Program
Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio 10.0\VC\BIN;C:\Program File
s (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
10.0\Common7\Tools;C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319;C:\
Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
Visual Studio 10.0\VC\VCPackag
es;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0
Tools;C:\Program Files (x86)\Mi
crosoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\Sy
stem32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;M:\data\bat;C:\Cygwin\bin;C:\Progra~
2\Java\jdk1.7.0_7\bin;C:\eclipse-java-juno-SR1-win32-x86_64-1spatial;C:\apache-maven-3.0.3\bin;C:\Pr
ogra~2\FME2013;\\1spatial.local\shares\gis\DevStudio10.0\x86;\\1spatial.local\shares\GIS\sentinel\nt
_x86\Delivery\LaserScan;C:\Progra~2\Hummingbird\Connectivity\14.00\Exceed;c:\progra~2\hummingbird\co
nnectivity\14.00\exceed;\\gothic-samba\gothic\com\mdasupp\x1-44;\\gothic-samba\gothic\com\aidu_mdasu
pp\x2-83;\\gothic-samba\gothic\unix\issuesupp\v3-101;\\gothic-samba\gothic\unix\gdesupp\v3-1;\\gothi
c-samba\gothic\unix\autotestsupp\v1-3;;M:\\gothic_bin\win7\matm_client_core\nt_x86_10.0\lib\main\rcs
test
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC

Could it be the inclusion of python-1.5 in the path? I have tried inserting
C:\Python27 into the path at the beginning, and it still does not work.

Cheers,

Marcus A.T MacWilliam, Senior Software Engineer. 1Spatial Ltd.
Tel: [phone], ext 2289, Mob: [phone].
E-Mail: marcus.macwilliam at 1spatial.com Skype:marcus.macwilliam

Tennyson House, 7 Cambridge Business Park, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ.
Registered in England No. 4785688, VAT Reg. No. 135539408.
Website: http://www.1spatial.com/ E-mail: info at 1spatial.com

Post by Duncan Grisby

Post by Marcus MacWilliam
I am trying to build a project that was written 10+ years ago,
with a newer version of OmniORB (4.1.6), on a Windows 7
machine with Visual Studio 2010, for 32-bit.
I have successfully downloaded the ORB ZIP, and built the
entire project, with 'make export'.

Presumably that completed without error?

Post by Marcus MacWilliam
Part of the makefile involves running omniidl to generate the
stub files from our IDL file, for compilation into the server.
Running command: C:\omniORB-4.1.6\bin\x86_win32\omniidl -bcxx -C\
\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt -Wbh=_s.h -Wbs=_s.cpp \
\gothic-samba\gothic\src\gijeprog\win7-devt\OO-Toolkit.idl
omniidl: Could not import back-end 'cxx'

Can you build the echo example? Go to src/examples/echo and run make.
Does that work? If so, how does its omniidl command line differ from
yours?
Try adding a -v flag to omniidl, so it outputs more information about
c:\omniORB-4.1.6\bin\x86_win32\omniidl -v -bcxx ...
What is in c:\omniORB-4.1.6\lib\python\omniidl_be\ ?
Duncan.

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[Duncan Grisby]

Post by Marcus MacWilliam
I now believe it is an environment problem. I have successfully
-bcxx -Wbh=_s.h -Wbs=_s.cpp -C

[...]

Post by Marcus MacWilliam
However when it is run from my GDE (Gothic Development Environment) via
Could it be the inclusion of python-1.5 in the path? I have tried inserting
C:\Python27 into the path at the beginning, and it still does not work.

What else is in the environment? Anything to do with Python? In
particular, is there a PYTHONPATH set?

You could try setting the environment variable PYTHONVERBOSE=1 which
will cause Python to tell you lots of stuff about what it's importing
from where.

Duncan.