2.2 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.

Uninstall any previous versions of Fnorb (if your previous version was 0.7 or later that just means double-click on the uninstall program). You will also have to manually edit your c:\autoexec.bat file to remove the three lines added by the previous installation (its pretty obvious which ones!).

2.

Double click on fnorb-1.1.exe

3.

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

4.

Create/set the following environment variables:

FNORB_HOME	Where\You\Put\Fnorb
	e.g. C:\Program Files\DSTC\Fnorb-1.1
PATH	%PATH%;Where\You\Put\Python;%FNORB_HOME%\Fnorb\script
PYTHONPATH	%PYTHONPATH%;%FNORB_HOME%;%FNORB_HOME%\Fnorb\src\Release