[omniORB] Nesting IDL files

[Matt Hortman]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 06:00:36PM -0500, Olaf Meding wrote:
> 
> omniORB does not seem to deal with nested IDL files correctly or maybe I am
> doing something wrong?  The IDL compiler has no problem compiling the main
> and nested idl files.  However, when I compile the files produced by the IDL
> compiler with VC6 I get an error saying that a header file is missing.  The
> name of the header file is the name of the nested IDL file.
> 
> Here is my (abreviated) IDL file:
>   module tcorba {
>     // losts of code shared by all of our IDL files
> 
>     #include "name.idl"
> 
>   }
> 
> Here is the IDL compiler command line:
>   omniidl.exe -bcxx -Wbsplice-modules
>   -I..\..\..\code\common
>   -DREAL_TIME_DATA_IDL
>   -Wbh=.h -Wbs=.cpp
>   -Cidl ..\..\..\code\common\tomotherapy.idl

It's been my experience that omniidl does not actually compile the
included IDL files.  It just #includes the associated header (in this
case name.h).  Therefore, in your example, you will have to compile
name.idl also.

HTH,

-Matt