[omniORB] omniidl on Windows 9X

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 15 May, Mair Quentin wrote:

> copy _sre.lib into the same dir as the example. Use the "-T" option -
> everything works OK.
>
> Still looks like an environment variable as omniidl can't find
> the Python DLLs. Does anybody know what I should set?

Set the PYTHONPATH environment variable to include the directory you
got _sre.lib from. That should work.

> PS Interestingly the below worked before copying _sre.lib over. Is it
> because omniidl is an exe? (I'm fairly new to python and haven't looked at
> how to build exes from scripts):

That's possibly the reason. I don't know why it should be a problem
though -- omniidl definitely works on Win98 with the normal Python
2.0 distribution, and no setting of PYTHONPATH. omniidl isn't an exe
for any clever reason -- it's just that it's hard to make a windows
command called just "omniidl" which causes Python to run. On Unix
platforms, omniidl is just a script.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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