The first thing you should do to install CIAO is to set the environment
      variable CIAO_ROOT to
      be $TAO_ROOT/CIAO, or whereever you have installed
      the CIAO sources.  The DANCE_ROOT environment
      variable should also be set to $TAO_ROOT/DAnCE, or
      wherever you have installed the DAnCE sources. Please refer
      to the ACE installation notes, 
        TAO installation notes, and the DAnCE installation
        notes  for instructions on setting $ACE_ROOT,
      $TAO_ROOT, and $DANCE_ROOT respectively. They are needed since CIAO sits on
      top of ACE+TAO+DAnCE. Compiling ACE+TAO+DAnCE successfully is the first requirement
      for compiling CIAO.
    
CIAO is divided into several parts, so different installation/building rules
      apply to different parts of CIAO.
      
    
$CIAO_ROOT/ccm, $CIAO_ROOT/ciao,
        $CIAO_ROOT/examples. CIAO should be usable on most platforms that TAO+DAnCE runs on. Please see TAO+DAnCE installation pages for details
If you have porting questions or have a problem compiling DAnCE or CIAO with TAO and ACE on the platforms shown above please send email to either ACE Newsgroup or the CIAO mailing list and we'll try to help you fix the problems. You can also submit bug reports and enhancement requests in our bug tracking system.
CIAO can be obtained electronically via the WWW and ftp. CIAO is bundled with the ACE and TAO release. You'll always need the most recent version of ACE and TAO because CIAO tracks changes to ACE and TAO very closely.
Most of the GNUmakefiles/project files/solution files required to build CIAO are available in the release. If you don't like the configurations used, please feel free to regenerate them using MPC. Please see this file for more details.
To build CIAO core/tools/examples:
$ACE_ROOT/lib. To
        build CIAO you will need:
        ACE
          TAO
          TAO_IDL
          IORTable
          Valuetype
          Security
          ACEXML
          DAnCE
          For the supported build tools please see MPC manual.
On Linux: do $ACE_ROOT/bin/mwc.pl -type gnuace at the
          locations specified above then make.
        
On Windows/VC8: do %ACE_ROOT%/bin/mwc.pl -type vc8
          at the locations specified above then Open the solution file and build.
        
Note: You can run mwc.pl at $CIAO_ROOT.
          After running the command
          with proper augment once then you
          can do make at $CIAO_ROOT (Linux) or open the
          workspace/solution file at $CIAO_ROOT (Windows) to build.
        
$CIAO_ROOT/CIAO_TAO_DAnCE.mwc
      .
      $ACE_ROOT/bin/mwc.pl CIAO_TAO_DAnCE.mwc -type gnuace from $CIAO_ROOT
      .
      See this tutorial for more information on connectors.
See DDS4CCM-INSTALL for more information on how to build and install the DDS4CCM connector.
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