Porting omniORB2

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This file provides some pointers to port omniORB2 to a new platform.

It should be straightforward to port omniORB2 to any platform which support POSIX style threads, BSD style sockets and has a decent C++ compiler which supports exceptions and templates. The description below assumes the port is to a unix platform but the information provided is valid for any platforms.

To start a port, you must create a platform configuration file in ./mk/platforms for the new platform. It is better to copy an existing one and modify to suit the new platform. Next, edit the file ./mk/config.mk to set the platform variable to the new platform. Suppose you have created a new file called x_y_z.mk. You should put a line like this in ./mk/config.mk:

platform = x_y_z

The makefiles in the distribution only work with GNUmake. Make sure that you have the program installed.

The libraries and programs in omniORB2 are configured by a number of CPP macros specified as compiler flags and in several header files. The details are as follows:

Platform specific macros

Each platform must be provided with three macros to identify the OS, the CPU and the OS version. For instance, the compiler flags for the supported platforms are:

Solaris 2.5/ Sparc -D__sunos__ -D__sparc__ -D__OSVERSION__=5 -DSVR4
Digital Unix 3.2/ Alpha -D__osf1__ -D__alpha__ -D__OSVERSION__=3
Linux 2.0/ x86 -D__linux__ -D__x86__ -D__OSVERSION__=2

Porting omnithread library

The file ./include/omnithread.h should be edited to include #if conditionals that can uniquely identify the new platform and to include the appropriate implementation-specific header file.

There are different POSIX threads implementations that conform to different draft versions. The following compiler flags should be used to identify the exact versions:

  • -DPthreadDraftVersion=<x> (e.g. x = 10 for Solaris 2.5)
  • -DPthreadSupportThreadPriority
  • -DNoNanoSleep

Porting omniORB2 library

The file ./include/omniORB2/CORBA_sysdep.h contains #if conditionals that define the size of primitive data types, CPU endian and other platform specific information. You should add to this file the information about the new platform.

Good Luck.

 

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