Installing Orca on Windows XP

Note:

Reviewed for release 2.3.0.

These are detailed instructions for installing Orca on Windows XP. See Download and Install Orca for general guidelines.

CMake

Minimum version required 2.4.2 (latest tested: 2.4.6). Download and run the installer.

Ice

Minimum version required 3.1.0 (latest tested: 3.2.0).

Download the installer from download page.

• Run the installer. Note that the default installation location is C:\Ice-[VERSION].
• Add C:\Ice-[VERSION]\bin to the Windows path (As an administrator right-click on My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables > Edit).
• Add ICE_HOME as a new user variable (As an administrator right-click on My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables > New. Variable name: ICE_HOME, Variable value: C:\Ice-[VERSION]).

Orca

Build and install Orca distribution.

• If you want to checkout Orca from SVN, see the Wiki for instructions.
• Otherwise, download the latest release of orca and un-tar the archive with one of many available utilities (e.g. PicoZip).
• Tested with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 v.8.0
  • Older versions are reported not to work.
• Important! Due to a bug in the current version of Ice, the full path of files in the Orca distribution may not have spaces. It's best to put it at the top level of the drive, e.i. C:\orca.
• The default installation directory is C:\orca-[VERSION], where [VERSION] is the Orca version. You can customized this by setting ORCA_INSTALL environment variable.
• Configure using CMake application.
  • Launch CMake. Point 'source code' to C:\orca. Point 'binary directory' to C:\orca\build.
  • Click on Configure button. Say Yes to creating build directory. (You may have to click Configure again until the left column turns gray.)
  • Click on OK button.
• Compile
  • Open the binary directory C:\orca\build in the Explorer and double click on the "solution file" orca.sln. This will open the entire solution consisting of many projects in Microsoft Visual Studio.
  • Select Menu item Build > Build Solution (F7)
• Install
  • While in MS Visual Studio, find INSTALL project in the Solution Explorer list on the left.
  • Right-click and select Project Only > Build Only INSTALL
  • Add C:\orca-[VERSION]\bin (or custom installation path) to the Windows path (As super-user right-click on My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables > Edit).
  • Note that the .cfg files get installed into C: Files. When the QuickStart tutorials refer to [ORCA-INSTALL], this is the directory they're referring to.