ACE TAO on RTEMS

[Joel Sherrill]

Johnny Willemsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>> I read on ACE TAO site that is possible to build ACE TAO for RTEMS
>>
>> http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/DOC_ROOT/ACE/ACE-INSTAL
>>     
> L.html#rtems
>
> Yes, that is true, but this is very recent, in fact the first time we got an
> error free compilation of ACE/TAO for rtems was yesterday ;-)
>
>   
>> I found on RTEMS web site the complete procedure to build ACE 
>> TAO for RTEMS
>>
>> http://www.rtems.com/ftp/pub/rtems/4.6.99.3/contrib/ACE-TAO/AC
>>     
> E-RTEMS.README
>
> That is ancient, the ACE version is old, documentation is old. 
>
>   
>> During the execution of make to build the host side of ACE 
>> TAO I had an 
>> error related to the string type that is not a data type.
>> Have someone built the ACE TAO for RTEMS and can explain me how to do?
>>     
>
> Yes, I have build it, in fact, I am building it dozens of times a day at
> this moment to revive the rtems port. We have all compilation errors
> resolved, we have a few warnings left that I want to fix asap. We haven't
> done any testing but I do know some code is missing between the rtems init
> task and the ACE initialization, that is something we are going to work on
> very soon. The rtems build we do now daily are on the ACE/TAO/CIAO
> distributed scoreboard, see
> http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/scoreboard/integrated.html. 
>
> At this moment you will need the svn head to build, see
> http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/DOC_ROOT/ACE/ACE-INSTALL.html#power
> how you can get the svn head version. All the changes we are doing will be
> part of the upcoming x.5.4 version of ACE/TAO/CIAO. We do have the
> restriction that any direct help for ACE/TAO/CIAO on RTEMS can only be
> delivered as part of our commercial services as described on
> www.theaceorb.nl. Feel free to contact me directly by email or phone to
> discuss our services related to rtems.
>
>   
Could you please provide a README for ACE/TAO on RTEMS that is more
correct that the ancient tarball?  I would like to have correct 
information in the
contrib directory.

--joel

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>
> Johnny Willemsen
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