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'''Don't forget to set up the environment veriable ACE_ROOT''' to point to where ACE was unpacked (e.g. ACE_wrappers). This will be used later on by (CMake) to find the ACE library. | '''Don't forget to set up the environment veriable ACE_ROOT''' to point to where ACE was unpacked (e.g. ACE_wrappers). This will be used later on by (CMake) to find the ACE library. | ||
'''Don't forget to update your system path so that windows can locate ace.dll/aced.dll at runtime'''. | '''Don't forget to update your system path so that windows can locate ace.dll/aced.dll at runtime''': append %ACE_ROOT%/lib to your system path. | ||
Revision as of 20:13, 25 November 2009
Linux
Follow instructions at: http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/DOC_ROOT/ACE/ACE-INSTALL.html, section "Building and Installing ACE on UNIX" --> "Using the Traditional ACE/GNU Configuration".
Important: follow the "Using the Traditional ACE/GNU Configuration" method. The other methods will compile successful, but the library you get might not work properly with YARP.
A brief summary:
- Download ACE (see Which ACE version from: http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu/, and unpack it
- set the environment variable ACE_ROOT to point to the directory where ace is unpacked, update your .bashrc accordingly e.g.:
export ACE_ROOT="/home/user/ACE_wrappers"
- update LD_LIBRARY_PATH, update your your .bashrc accordingly:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ACE_ROOT/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
- Build a symlink to config.h as (config.h is in ACE_wrappers/ace):
ln -s config-linux.h config.h
and (which can be found in ACE_wrappers/include/makeinclude):
ln -s platform_linux.GNU platform_macros.GNU
- Compile ace:
cd $ACE_ROOT/ace make
When you are done you should see the .so libraries in $ACE_ROOT/lib.
Don't forget to set up the environment veriable ACE_ROOT to point to where ACE was unpacked (e.g. ACE_wrappers). This will be used later on by (CMake) to find the ACE library.
Windows
Follow instructions at: http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/DOC_ROOT/ACE/ACE-INSTALL.html, section "Building and Installing ACE on Windows" --> "Building and Installing ACE on Windows with Microsoft Visual Studio".
A brief summary:
- Download ACE (see Which ACE version from: http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu/, and unpack it
- set the environment variable ACE_ROOT to point to the directory where ace is unpacked, e.g:
ACE_ROOT=C:/dev/ACE_wrappers
- add %ACE_ROOT%/lib to your system path, this is important to allow windows to locate ace.dll at runtime
- You will find the Visual Studio project files there in the ACE_wrappers directory. We suggest to use the ones within the ACE_wrappers/ace directory which compiles only the subset of the library you need (save a lot of compilation time). Pick the file that matches your compiler (e.g. ACE_vc8.sln)
- Before compiling, ACE requires the ACE_wrappers/ace/config.h file. This can be made equal (copy) to the ace/config-win32.h which has provisions for the supported WIN32 compilers. Then simply compile the libraries (from Visual Studio). Get a coffee, it takes a while.
Don't forget to set up the environment veriable ACE_ROOT to point to where ACE was unpacked (e.g. ACE_wrappers). This will be used later on by (CMake) to find the ACE library.
Don't forget to update your system path so that windows can locate ace.dll/aced.dll at runtime: append %ACE_ROOT%/lib to your system path.