[okl4-developer] how to generate the serial_client.h and serial_server.h from serial.idl4?

[Ben Leslie]

On Thu Aug 23, 2007 at 09:51:06 +0900, ?????? wrote:

>Hi,
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>I am SuGil Choi from Korea.
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>The previous email I sent was empty, but the content is visible in the archive.
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>So, I send it again.
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>I am trying to find out the mechanism of generating stub and skeleton codes from idl4 file.
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>There is a serial.idl4 in the directory "libs\iguana\include\interfaces".
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>After compiling, two header files (serial_client.h and serial_server.h) are created in the directory "build\iguana\libs\iguana\include\interfaces".
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>But, I can't find the script for doing this.
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>As I want to add new interface, the understanding of this is crucial.
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>I found an entry related to this question in the archive, but, still, I can't get it done.
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>Thanks in advance.
>
>SuGil.


Hi SuGil,

The tool used for this is the 'magpie' IDL compiler. You can find it
in the tools/magpie directory. In tools/build.py you should find
the rule used to invoke the compiler by searching for 'magpie'.

Cheers,

Ben