System Requirements

You should make sure you have lots of disk space available before you build. As a rough guide it will take up to 250MB of space to build the dynamically linked release versions of the TAO libraries and executables. To build debug and/or statically linked versions will obviously consume more space. To build all configurations will probably require approximately 1GB of drive space. Most of the time you will not want or need to build all configurations.

Command-line Tools

To build ACE and TAO the Borland C++Builder command line tools need to be on the path, however C++Builder 4 does not set this up for you automatically. These tools are usually installed in C:\Program Files\Borland\CBuilder4\bin. You can add this directory to your path in the System Control Panel, or by executing the command:

set PATH=C:\Progra~1\Borland\CBuilder4\bin;%PATH%

ACE+TAO Patches

For beta kits more recent than 1.2, please check here to see if a patch is required to build with C++Builder.

Configuration Header File

Before building you must create a file in the directory C:\ACE_wrappers\ace called config.h. This file should contain the lines:

#include "ace/config-win32.h"

If building on Windows 95 (or 98), the file should contain the lines:

#define ACE_HAS_WINNT4 0
#include "ace/config-win32.h"

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