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Summary This article describes the cause of the IDL compilation error: idl: error: No valid license was found
Article Number 33463
Environment Orbix 6.3 All Supported Operating Systems
Question/Problem Description What is the reason for the following error when compiling an IDL file:

  idl: error: No valid license was found

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Error Message idl: error: No valid license was found
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Cause This error is caused by an invalid development license file.

It mostly occurs when trying to compile IDL files when only runtime licenses are installed.
Resolution Ensure development licenses are installed by verifying that the license file pointed at by the IT_LICENSE_FILE environment variable (or the default <IT_PRODUCT_DIR>\\etc\\licenses.txt file) contains the lines specifying the license for the idl compiler:

{ ... aid="OrbixJART" fid="idl" lc="context" majav="6" ...}
{ ... aid="OrbixART" fid="idl" lc="context" majav="6" ...}

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Created date: 23 July 2012
Last Modified: 13 February 2013
Last Published: 23 July 2012
First Published date: 23 July 2012

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