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+An anonymous contributor provided the following notes for using ACE
+with VxWorks 5.1:
+
+Hope this helps someone else. Note that I didn't run the tests on ACE so
+I can't say that everything works.  What I ended up doing was writing a
+few tests of my own to test out some of the features and get a feel for
+what ACE could do so beware that maybe these aren't the
+only things that one would have to change.
+
+    1) Prerequisite -- make sure C++ run time support is working (like
+       global/static constructor/destructor invocation)
+
+    2) Used "$ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU" for a guide
+          to setup my environment variables.
+
+            - ACE_ROOT, WIND_BASE, WIND_HOST_TYPE, CPU, and TOOLENV
+
+    3) copied $ACE_ROOT/ace/config-vxworks5.x.h to $ACE_ROOT/ace/config.h
+
+    4) copied $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_vxworks5.x_g++.GNU
+       to  $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU
+
+    5) had to modify ${ACE_ROOT}/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU
+       to add -DCPU=SPARClite, -msparclite to CCFLAGS and add
+         $(ACE_ROOT) and /usr/local/lib/g++-include to INCLDIRS
+
+        I think this was a "make" issue.
+
+    6) had to modify $ACE_ROOT/ace/config.h
+       to set/reset the following ACE configuration parameters:
+
+        ACE_LACKS_POSIX_TIME, ACE_LACKS_SIGINFO_T, ACE_LACKS_IOSTREAM_TOTALLY,
+        ACE_NEEDS_FTRUNCATE, ACE_LACKS_ACE_IOSTREAM
+
+    7) added the following to $ACE_ROOT/ace/config.h:
+
+#define ACE_SIZEOF_CHAR                 1
+#define ACE_SIZEOF_SHORT                2
+#define ACE_SIZEOF_INT                  4
+#define ACE_SIZEOF_LONG                 4
+#define ACE_SIZEOF_LONG_LONG            8
+#define ACE_SIZEOF_FLOAT                4
+#define ACE_SIZEOF_DOUBLE               8
+#define ACE_SIZEOF_LONG_DOUBLE          16
+#define ACE_SIZEOF_VOID_P               4
+
+/*
+ *  Since VxWorks does have clock_gettime() I really didn't want
+ *  to set ACE_LACKS_CLOCK_GETTIME to get this define, so I made
+ *  one of my own.
+ */
+typedef int clockid_t;
+
+/*
+ *  Prototypes for VxWorks functions that ACE uses.
+ */
+extern "C" char *sysBspRev(void);
+extern "C" char *getcwd(char *, int);
+extern "C" int  clock_gettime(clockid_t, struct timespec *);
+extern "C" int  nanosleep(const struct timespec *, struct timespec *);
+
+/*
+ *  These because of some quirks with ACE_LACKS_IOSTREAMS_TOTALLY
+ */
+#define ACE_DEFAULT_LOG_STREAM  0
+
+     8) I changed the last call argument in Log_Msg.cpp line 1095 from:
+
+          this->msg_ostream ());
+
+        to this:
+
+          (FILE *) (this->msg_ostream ()));
+
+     9) I used the 2.7.2.1 GNU compiler.