Having beat up wine, idltojava.exe and so forth to do idltojava compiling without leaving the linux box, I figured I'd share the information. Feel free to include this in a FAQ. It Works For Me, Your Mileage May Vary. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To perform idltojava processing on Linux you will need: 1) A recent distribution of wine from http://www.winehq.com. Wine is a windows binary loader for Linux. It is capable of running a fair amount of Windows executables on Linux. 2) Something equivalent to the following in your ~/.winerc file. Substitute the path to your java development tools area for /opt/java if necessary. I keep all my java development tools under the /opt/java directory, e.g. /opt/java/jdk1.2.2, /opt/java/jikes, etc. [Drive J] Path=/opt/java Type=network Label=java Filesystem=win95 You should set up a similar network drive entry if your java source files are kept in a different directory tree. 3) Sun's idltojava utility for Win32 platforms. Download this from http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/jdk12/idltojava.html Save the downloaded file as /opt/java/idltojava-ea-win32.exe Extract the archive by: wine /opt/java/idltojava-ea-win32.exe This will create a directory /opt/java/idltojava-win32, and store the executable and documentation in that directory. 4) To compile idl files using idltojava.exe: First, preprocess the idl using g++. Gcc might work, but I haven't tried it personally. Include any predefined symbols and include paths (e.g. -DSYMBOL -I/some/idl/include/dir) as "other options", below. The following line stores the output of the preprocessed file.idl as Jfile.idl: g++ -E [other options] - < file.idl > Jfile.idl Second, invoke idltojava.exe via wine. Include the option "-fno-cpp" to avoid invoking the preprocessor again. You may want to include the option "-fmap-included-files" to create java stubs/skeletons for interfaces which are included via #include directives in the idl file: wine /opt/java/idltojava-win32/idltojava.exe \ -fno-cpp -fmap-included-files Jfile.idl This creates a multitude of java source files. Last, depending on which ORB you are attempting to operate with, you may need to strip out the "IDL:omg.org" portion of the interface specifications in the java sources. This was required to interoperate with TAO (http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html). Basically, if you run into problems connecting to a server, try the following and see if it works: sed "s@IDL:omg.org/@IDL:@g" $file > $file.tmp ; mv $file.tmp $file You will need to do this for each .java file generated by idltojava. I use the following in my Makefile to perform processing via idltojava. The double quotes in the wine invokation are significant.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- IDLCPP = g++ IDLCPPOPTS = -E -DDEFINED_SYMBOL \ -I/include/path/to/any/included/idl/files WINE = /opt/wine/bin/wine IDLJAVA = /opt/java/idltojava-win32/idltojava.exe IDLJAVAOPTS = -fno-cpp -fmap-included-files FIX_JAVA = /opt/java/fix_java.sh FILEIDLJAVA = \ first___java_file_output_from_idltojava.java \ second__java_file_output_from_idltojava.java \ ... \ last____java_file_output_from_idltojava.java $(FILEIDLJAVA): file.idl $(IDLCPP) $(IDLCPPOPTS) - < $< > J$< $(WINE) "$(IDLJAVA) $(IDLJAVAOPTS) J$<" $(FIX_JAVA) $(IPCIDLJAVA) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is fix_java.sh as referenced in the Makefile rule above: --------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh for file in "$@"; do echo Fixing: $file sed "s@IDL:omg.org/@IDL:@g" $file > $file.tmp mv $file.tmp $file done --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ebm +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ | Eric B. Mitchell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | tel: (301) 809 - 3534 Altair Aerospace Corporation | | tel: (800) 7 - ALTAIR 4201 Northview Dr. Suite 410 | | fax: (301) 805 - 8122 Bowie, MD 20716 | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ ,___ /"\ / o=\ /"""---===/ / \_/ \__/ ---===/ | //\ || /""TT""/ //\ || ||""\ | // \ || || // \ || ||__/ | //--==\ |L--/ || //--==\ || || "=, \ ---===/ \____---===/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
