LibIDL

Download Source:	http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libIDL/0.8/libIDL-0.8.14.tar.bz2

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Introduction to LibIDL

libIDL is a library licensed under the GNU LGPL for creating trees of CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) files, which is a specification for defining portable interfaces. libIDL was initially written for ORBit (the ORB from the GNOME project, and the primary means of libIDL distribution).

Project Homepage: Unknown

Note

Currently, libIDL does not compile with Flex 2.5.34. With 2.5.343 there is no problems

Dependencies

Required

• Glib2

Optional to Build Documentation

• TeTeX

Non-Multilib

Compile the package:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

Install the package

make install

Multilib

32Bit

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD32}" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32}" \
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
mv -v /usr/bin/libIDL-config-2{,-32}

N32

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILDN32}" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32}" \
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib32 &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
mv -v /usr/bin/libIDL-config-2{,-n32}

64Bit

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD64}" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}" \
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
mv -v /usr/bin/libIDL-config-2{,-64} &&
ln -sfv multiarch_wrapper /usr/bin/libIDL-config-2

Documentation

If you have TeTeX installed and wold like to build the documentation, Run the following command:

make pdf &&
make ps &&
make html &&
makeinfo --plaintext libIDL2.texi >libIDL2.txt

Install the documentation:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14/html &&
install -v -m644 libIDL2.{pdf,dvi,ps,txt} README \
    /usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14 &&
install -v -m644 libIDL2.html/* /usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14/html

Contents

Installed Programs:	libIDL-config-2
Installed Libraries:	libIDL-2.{so,a}
Installed Directories:	/usr/include/libIDL-2.0/libIDL and /usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14

Short Descriptions

libIDL-config-2	determines the compile and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use libIDL-2.
libIDL-2.{so,a}	libraries provide the functions to create and maintain trees of CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) files.