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omniORB for ETS-Kernel
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The following contains instructions to use omniORB2 under ETS-Kernel. The information is provided by David MorgenLender <[email protected]>.

  1. Select the platform x86_ets in config/config.mk.
  2. This platform requires the omniORB2 IDL compiler omniidl2.exe for Windows NT/95. Before you proceed to build the libraries, make sure that you have obtained a copy of the compiler and it is in one of the directories in your Path environment. omniidl2.exe is distributed in the <top>/bin/win32 directory of a binary distribution for x86_nt_4.0.
  3. Build the libraries by following the instructions given in "Building omniORB2 from the source files" in README.win32. Only the libraries will be built and installed in <top>\lib\x86_ets
  4. ETS-Kernel does not support registry. The default setup is to read from a configuration file (C:\OMNIORB.CFG) for the root context of the COSNaming service.
  5. The ETS-Kernel application should be built using the static version of omniORB (-D_WINSTATIC must be specified.) See mk/platforms/x86_ets.mk for an example.
  6. Currently, there is a bug in ETS-Kernel: bind() does not select a port, if it's given a port value of 0. PharLap is working on a fix for this. So for now, the app cannot depend upon omniORB to determine the port to use. As a workaround, I specify a port # to use via a command line argument to the app.
  7. omniORB requires that a hostname be specified, but ETS-Kernel does not support a pre-defined hostname. The workaround is to specify a hostname via an environment variable (OMNIORB_USEHOSTNAME), which I set during the initialization of my app.
  8. It's critical that ETS-Kernel is configured properly regarding the network card, IP information, etc. The appropriate network card driver must be linked into the app. The appropriate configuration information (e.g. IP address) must be configured into the ETS-Kernel monitor (which functions as a loader for the app).
 

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