ChangeLogTag: Mon Jul 19 22:11:13 1999 David L. Levine <levine@cs.wustl.edu>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 63 deletions

diff --git a/ACE-INSTALL.html b/ACE-INSTALL.html
index f1337682993..7f15b81ced0 100644
--- a/ACE-INSTALL.html
+++ b/ACE-INSTALL.html
@@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@ easiest way to fix it is as above, recreate it.</P>
 For the most part, you should be able to follow the instructions above
 to build ACE and applications that use it.  Start with the
 <a href="#unix">Unix instructions</a> above to build ACE and the
-applications that use it.  Please see below for mroe information on
+applications that use it.  Please see below for more information on
 <a href="#VxWorks/NT">building ACE on NT hosts for VxWorks targets</a>.<P>
 
 A few notes on VxWorks builds (thanks to
@@ -1229,10 +1229,6 @@ Please note that those VxWorks kernel configuration parameters
 are set in the VxWorks configAll.h file.  You must rebuild your
 VxWorks kernel after modifying that file.<p>
 
-It probably wouldn't take much effort to modify the
-ACE library to not require <code>INCLUDE_CPLUS_IOSTREAMS</code>,
-if necessary.<p>
-
 If you're first getting started with ACE and/or VxWorks, I recommend
 just building the ACE library and tests first.  (Some of the ACE
 examples, in System_V_IPC, don't build on VxWorks yet.)  Then try
@@ -1311,6 +1307,7 @@ A few additional Windows Notes, from Paul von Behren:<p>
       ``generic'' Unix environment.  Using this library, they have ported a
       large collection of GNU tools to WinNT/95 - including a port of
       gcc/g++.  See <A href="http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/">http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/</A>
+      A related link is <a href="ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/">ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/</a>
       WindRiver provides a subset of these tools - including make
       and gcc cross-compilers.  (Note:  it appears that the make
       that is provided with Tornado 2.0 cannot be used to build ACE.
@@ -1340,12 +1337,7 @@ Using the Cygnus tools, this approach should work:
     <code>ACE_wrappers/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU</code>
     as usual for VxWorks.  See
     <a href="include/makeinclude/platform_vxworks5.x_g++.GNU">the
-    g++/VxWorks platform file</a> for more information.  You may
-    also want to add this line, because there's no need to install
-    libraries in the VxWorks build:
-<pre>
-INSTALL=
-</pre><p>
+    g++/VxWorks platform file</a> for more information.<p>
   <li>Create an <code>ACE_wrappers/ace/config.h</code> file that looks
     something like the following.  tao_idl should be built to not support
     native exception handling, because that's not available on VxWorks.
@@ -1367,21 +1359,6 @@ And Chris Ryan's instructions for building for VxWorks targets
 on Windows NT hosts:
 
 <ol>
-  <li>Create UNIX-like environment in NT Command Prompt windows by
-      downloading GNU bash, perl, and so forth from your favorite ftp
-      site. I went to <a href="ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/">ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/</a>
-      and downloaded <code>cdk.exe</code> and installed that on my NT box.
-      I downloaded perl5.0 from where I can't remember.  There may have been
-      bits and pieces from other places for things like <code>vi</code> and
-      <code>less</code>.
-
-  <li>Download latest ACE.  Create 2 parallel trees, say
-      <code>/ace/ACE_wrappers.NT</code> and
-      <code>/ace/ACE_wrappers.vxworks</code>.  The NT tree is for building
-      <code>aced.dll</code> and <code>tao_idl.exe</code> as currently
-      documented for ACE/TAO on NT/VC++5.0. The VxWorks tree is the
-      cross compilation tree.
-
   <li>Path setting that seems to be working is:<p>
       <pre>
       /tornado/host/x86-win32/bin:
@@ -1429,42 +1406,20 @@ on Windows NT hosts:
       <code>cygwin.dll</code> is from the Cygnus GNU software download and install.
 
   <li>Basically, follow documented procedure for ACE build/install on UNIX
-      platform. Create a <code>$ACE_ROOT/ace/config.h</code> that looks like:<p>
+      platform.  Create a <code>$ACE_ROOT/ace/config.h</code> that looks
+      like:<p>
       <pre>
       #include "config-vxworks5.x.h"
       </pre>
 
-      And create a <code>$ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU</code>
+      And create a
+      <code>$ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU</code>
       that looks like:<p>
       <pre>
       WIND_BASE = /tornado
       WIND_HOST_TYPE = x86-win32
-      PATH += :$(WIND_BASE)/host/$(WIND_HOST_TYPE)/bin
       CPU = I80486
-      include $(ACE_ROOT)/include/makeinclude/platform_NTvxworks5.x_g++.GNU
-      </pre>
-
-      (But, I guess the PATH+= line is superfluous based on the PATH as shown
-      previously).
-
-      Finally, create a
-      <code>$ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_NTvxworks5.x_g++.GNU</code>
-      with diff output from 'diff platform_vxworks5.x_g++.GNU
-      platform_NTvxworks5.x_g++.GNU' that looks like:
-
-      <pre>
-      58c58
-      &lt; HOST_DIR        = $(WIND_BASE)/host/sun4-solaris2
-      ---
-      &gt; HOST_DIR        = $(WIND_BASE)/host/x86-win32
-      62,63c62,63
-      &lt; CXX             = g++$(TOOLENV)
-      &lt; CFLAGS          += -DVXWORKS -D_REENTRANT -ansi -fno-builtin
-      -fno-defer-pop -fvolatile -nostdinc -nostdlib -pipe -Wall
-      ---
-      &gt; CXX             = $(CC)
-      &gt; CFLAGS          += -DVXWORKS -D_REENTRANT -ansi -fno-builtin -fno-defer-pop \
-      -fvolatile -nostdinc -nostdlib -Wall #-pipe
+      include $(ACE_ROOT)/include/makeinclude/platform_vxworks5.x_g++.GNU
       </pre>
 
   <li>Now, follow the existing documentation for a UNIX platform build of ACE
@@ -1474,8 +1429,8 @@ on Windows NT hosts:
       </pre>
 
   <li>To build $ACE_ROOT/tests, I had to use the <code>make.exe</code> in the
-      <code>/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin</code> directory as I couldn't get
-      make shipped with Tornado to run ace_ld and I couldn't figure out any
+      <code>/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin</code> directory as I couldn't
+      get make shipped with Tornado to run ace_ld and I couldn't figure out any
       other work around.<p>
 
       <pre>
@@ -1491,21 +1446,17 @@ on Windows NT hosts:
   <li>Build ACE and TAO_IDL in the NT tree as already documented. As
       mentioned above, I put <code>aced.dll</code> in <code>/bin</code>.
 
-  <li>Copy TAO_IDL/tao_idl.exe to TAO_IDL directory in the ACE/TAO vxworks
-      source tree. (I didn't spend any time yet looking for the place where the
-      makefiles are using the absolute path to tao_idl.exe.)
-
-  <li>Build orbsvcs.
+  <li>Build $TAO_ROOT/tao
       <pre>
       CPP_LOCATION=/Program Files/DevStudio/VC/bin/CL.exe
-      cd $TAO_ROOT/orbsvcs/orbsvcs
+      cd $TAO_ROOT/tao
       /gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/make
       </pre>
 
-  <li>Build $TAO_ROOT/tao
+  <li>Build orbsvcs.
       <pre>
       CPP_LOCATION=/Program Files/DevStudio/VC/bin/CL.exe
-      cd $TAO_ROOT/tao
+      cd $TAO_ROOT/orbsvcs/orbsvcs
       /gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/make
       </pre>