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On a Windows System

To use the IDL compiler fnidl you must have a C/C++ pre-processor installed on your path. By default, Fnorb will try to use the one that comes with MS Visual C++ (cl.exe), but if you have some other pre-processor (such as the excellent gcc available FREE for Windows from Cygnus) then you must edit the file ``Fnorb/script/cpp.py'' and set the value of the COMMAND variable as appropriate.

  1. Installation from sources is performed in the same way as on Unix. Unpack the source distribution with a utitility that supports tar files, such as WinZip.

  2. Invoke setup.py

    $ python setup.py install

  3. Make sure that you have set the value of the COMMAND variable in module ``Fnorb/script/cpp'' as mentioned above.

  4. For this release, installation of the batch files (e.g. fnidl.bat) is not automatic; this will be addressed in a future release. Copy the files from Fnorb's script directory to the Script directory of your Python installation.

  5. Set the environment variable FNORB_HOME to the directory suggested by setup.py. Correctly setting FNORB_HOME is only necessary for the batch files; if you invoke the IDL compiler and other tools as .py files, this variable (and the batch files) is not needed.


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