Chapter 1 System Prerequisites Release 7.1
This chapter supplies system prerequisite information for UNIX and Windows platforms, including memory, graphics adapters, swap space, operating system features, the windowing system, compilers, and graphics libraries.
You must ensure that all supporting hardware and software are in place and that all necessary vendor-supplied system revisions are present on your workstation before you install and try to run AVS/Express, otherwise AVS/Express may not work on your system.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Of these sections, you must read and complete Supported Platforms and the section pertaining to your operating system. Once you meet the listed prerequisites, continue to Chapter 2, Installing and Licensing AVS/Express.
1.1 Supported Platforms
The table below outlines the platforms that are supported in this AVS/Express release (Release 7.1). Requirements for operating systems, graphics libraries and compilers are also listed
Release 7.1 of AVS/Express is available for the following platforms:
Table 0-1
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Darwin 8.x (Mac OS X 10.4)
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- Note: On all UNIX platforms, gzip must be present in order to install AVS/Express. If gzip is not installed on your UNIX machine, download the gzip source and compile/install it before you run the installation script install.xp. Linux and Darwin machines will typically have gzip preinstalled. For more information about gzip go to www.gzip.org.
1.2 Windows Platform Prerequisites
This section contains the prerequisites for various Windows platforms.
Table 0-2
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Windows 2000 or XP (Visual Studio 2005)
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- Bring up Windows Explorer.
- Select Help->About Windows.
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MACHINE=pc. This setting should be added by the installer.
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- Select Start->Settings->Control Panel from the Task Bar.
- Double-click the System icon in the Control Panel.
- Select the Environment tab folder and verify that the MACHINE environment variable is set correctly.
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Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 (or Visual Studio 2005) is required only if you plan on creating modules in AVS/Express.
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Intel Fortran 8.1 is required only if you plan on creating fortran modules in AVS/Express.
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Windows 2000 or XP (Visual Studio .NET 2003)
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- Bring up Windows Explorer.
- Select Help->About Windows.
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MACHINE=pc7. This setting should be added by the installer.
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- Select Start->Settings->Control Panel from the Task Bar.
- Double-click the System icon in the Control Panel.
- Select the Environment tab folder and verify that the MACHINE environment variable is set correctly.
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Microsoft Visual C++ 7.1 (or Visual Studio .NET 2003) is required only if you plan on creating modules in AVS/Express.
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Intel Fortran 8.1 is required only if you plan on creating fortran modules in AVS/Express.
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Windows NT4, 2000 or XP (Visual C++ 6.0)
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- Bring up Windows Explorer.
- Select Help->About Windows.
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MACHINE=pc6. This setting should be added by the installer.
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- Select Start->Settings->Control Panel from the Task Bar.
- Double-click the System icon in the Control Panel.
- Select the Environment tab folder and verify that the MACHINE environment variable is set correctly.
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Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 is required only if you plan on creating modules in AVS/Express.
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Digital Fortran 6.0 is required only if you plan on creating fortran modules in AVS/Express.
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Table 0-5
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Windows XP x64 (Visual Studio 2005)
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- Bring up Windows Explorer.
- Select Help->About Windows.
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MACHINE=pc_64. This setting should be added by the installer.
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- Select Start->Settings->Control Panel from the Task Bar.
- Double-click the System icon in the Control Panel.
- Select the Environment tab folder and verify that the MACHINE environment variable is set correctly.
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Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 (or Visual Studio 2005) is required only if you plan on creating modules in AVS/Express.
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Intel Fortran 9.0 is required only if you plan on creating fortran modules in AVS/Express.
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1.3 Mac OS X / Darwin Platform Prerequisites
The Mac OS X version of AVS/Express is really a port to Darwin, the UNIX core underneath Mac OS X. See (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix). To install and run AVS/Express, some basic familiarity with the UNIX comand line is needed. The User Interface is based on X11 and Motif, not Aqua.
X11
You must have X11 installed on your Macintosh. If you are running 10.4, X11 can be found on your OS installer CDs. Make sure you are running the X11 server before starting AVS/Express. If you are using X11 on the Mac for the first time and you have a one button mouse, you need to remember to hold down the control key while clicking the mouse to emulate a right mouse button click.
Motif
AVS/Express 7.1 for Mac OS X / Darwin uses Open Motif 2.2.2. You can not use Open Motif 2.1.x. Open Motif is available from a variety of sources, including the Open Group (http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/).
AVS/Express will not run on Darwin without Motif libraries. The libraries must be accessible via the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH variable (see below) or within a standard location such as /usr/X11R6/lib. There is an exception to the previous rule to assist customers who want to use AVS/Express with installing Motif. The Darwin version of AVS/Express comes with a special executable, bin/darwin/express.static, that has been statically linked with Motif. You may use this executable without installing Motif. If you want to re-link AVS/Express in the course of compiling a project or generating a runtime, you must install the Motif libraries.
gcc/g77
In order for develop new C/C++/Fortran modules for AVS/Express, you must install compilers. AVS/Express uses gcc version 4.0 for C and C++ which is part of the XCode suite. XCode can be installed from the CD that comes with your OS or can be downloaded from the Apple Developer's Connection.
ADC does not distribute g77, but precompiled versions can be downloaded from several places on the internet. AVS/Express was compiled using g77 3.4 from http://hpc.sourceforge.net.
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
If AVS/Express cannot find its libraries on startup, you must set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
If you are using the tcsh shell, the command to set the variable would be similar to the following.
setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH <express_install_dir>/lib/darwin
The same command using the bash shell would be
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=<express_install_dir>/lib/darwin
stacksize
On Mac OS X / Darwin, the default stacksize limits are too small. If AVS/Express crashes on startup with a segmentation fault, try increasing the stacksize.
If you are using the tcsh shell, you can increase the stacksize by using the 'unlimit' command.
For details on this command consult the tcsh man page.
% unlimit stacksize
If you are using the bash shell you can increase the stacksize by using the 'ulimit command. For details on this command consult the bash man page.
% ulimit -s 2048
1.4 Linux Prerequisites
Non Red Hat distributions
In deciding which version of AVS/Express to install for a non-Red Hat Linux distribution, the most important criterion is the compiler revision level.
Type the command:
gcc --version
at a command prompt.
If the result is "3.2", then you should be able to use the Red Hat 8 version of AVS/Express. If you have a different compiler version, you may run into difficulties especially when compiling or relinking a project. It may be possible to install the 3.2 compilers on your machine because the source is available from Red Hat.
X11/Motif
AVS/Express 7.1 for Linux uses Open Motif version 2.2. You can not use Open Motif 2.1.x. Open Motif is available from a variety of sources, including the Open Group (http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/).
AVS/Express will not run on Linux without Motif libraries, which must be accessible via the LD_LIBRARY_PATH or within a standard location such as /usr/X11R6/lib. It also works to put the Motif shared library in <install_dir>/lib/linux, because AVS/Express will look there to find its own shared libraries. There is an exception to the previous rule to assist customers who want to use AVS/Express with installing Motif. The Linux version of AVS/Express comes with a special executable, bin/<machine>/express.static, that has been statically linked with Motif. You may use this executable without installing Motif. If you want to re-link AVS/Express in the course of compiling a project or generating a runtime, then you must install the Motif libraries.
Mesa
The x86 version of AVS/Express 7.1 for Linux is built with Mesa 3.4.2, an OpenGL emulator. The Mesa libraries are freely available directly from the Mesa web site (http://www.mesa3d.org). We recommend that you install the patched versions of these libraries prepared by AVS, which are available on the AVS ftp site (ftp://ftp.avs.com/pub/express/linux/). Generally, you should use the most recent version available, which was 3.4.2 (Mesa3d_342.tar.gz) at the time AVS/Express 7.1 was released. This tar file contains a README file outlining the changes made to the original Mesa distribution.
Fortran Libraries
AVS/Express requires a Fortran library in order to compile new projects. If you did not install the Fortran support that came with your Linux distribution, you should do so before compiling a new AVS/Express project. Alternatively, you can copy the required file from <install-dir>/lib/<machine>/missing to <install-dir>/lib/<machine>. If you do not do so you may see an error about missing "libg2c."
In Red Hat 8 and later, the libg2c library has been moved to the libf2c-3.2-7 package, instead being a part of the Fortran compiler (g77). So you can install libf2c without needing to install the entire Fortran compiler.
1.5 Sun Platforms Prerequisites
This section provides system prerequisites that are specific to the Solaris platform. There are two different versions of AVS/Express for Solaris: s8 is a 32-bit application, s8_64 is a 64-bit application and requires a 64-bit processor.
AVS/Express is built with Sun's Studio 11 compilers which are available as a free download from Sun. If you are running Solaris 8 and receive a relocation error when starting AVS/Express then you need to install some system patches from Sun. If you have installed Sun Studio 11 then these patches were probably installed at that time. The patches are included on the AVS/Express CD in the 'patches' directory, or can be downloaded from Sun. Consult your Solaris documentation for details on how to install the patches.
- 109147 - Linker patch
- 108434 - 32-Bit Shared library patch for C++
- 108435 - 64-Bit Shared library patch for C++
Worldwide Language Support
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AVS/Express is enabled for use with the Western European language locales on Solaris described below.
It has not been possible to provide an exhaustive list of all the other locales supported by AVS/Express on Solaris. These are the general criteria in order for a system locale to be supported:
- The system locale name must match one of the following: the AVS/Express locale name, the AVS/Express language name, and one of a list of aliases provided by AVS/Express for each locale
- The system locale must support: the relevant national or international standard character sets, EUC encodings for multi-byte character sets, and fonts that match these character sets and encodings.
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1.6 SGI Platforms Prerequisites
This section provides system prerequisites that are specific to the SGI platform. There are two different versions of AVS/Express for the SGI platform: sgN32 supports the SGI 32-bit processors and sg6 supports the SGI 64-bit processors.
Compilers and Language Libraries
C/C++
You need the C and C++ compilers, together with their runtime libraries, to relink your application.
You must also have the C and C++ compilers' runtime libraries (libc.so and libC.so) in order to run the express executable. These are supplied on the IRIX CD, and are included in the standard installation, so they should already exist in /usr/lib on your system. If they do not, you can install them from the c_eoe.sw.lib and c++_eoe.sw.lib packages on the CD.
The C compiler is supplied on the IRIS Development Option CD, which is a separately purchased product.
- For version sgN32, the C compiler version must be 7.3or higher.
- For version sg6, the C compiler version must be 7.3 or higher.
The C++ compiler is also a separately purchased product.
- For version sgN32, the C++ compiler version must be 7.3 or higher.
- For version sg6, the C++ compiler version must be 7.3 or higher.
FORTRAN
You need the FORTRAN runtime library (libftn.so) to run AVS/Express with the Annotation and Graphing Kit and the PrintViewer present or to relink applications that contain them.
The libftn.so library is supplied on the IRIX CD. It is part of the standard installation, so it should already exist in /usr/lib on your system. If it does not, you can install it from the ftn_eoe.sw.lib package on the CD.
To remove these FORTRAN dependencies, you must relink AVS/Express without the Annotation and Graphing Kit and the PrintViewer. See Removing Fortran Dependencies, for information on how to remove these dependencies.
Table 0-6
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The hardware renderer requires that OpenGL be supported in an RGB pixel format with a Z-buffer. At least one such visual must exist for a compliant OpenGL implementation running on an X Window system using the GLX extension.
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The first line will verify which graphics board you have. The following lines will give the details of the board.
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The software renderer will work on any SGI workstation.
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The Fortran library libftn.so must be installed on your system in order to relink AVS/Express with the Annotation and Graphing Kit and the PrintViewer.
The Fortran library libftn.so is supplied on the IRIX CD.
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If it is not available on your system:
- Change to the /usr/lib directory.
- Copy libftn.so from the ftn_eoe.sw.lib package on the IRIX CD.
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All SGI graphics options support the RGB blend extension for XOR rendering. The high-end graphics options, such as Reality Engine, Reality Engine2, VTX and Solid/High/Maximum Impact, support the 3D texture extension. Reality Engine 2 also supports the texture colortable extension which allows direct rendering of indexed textures (especially useful for volume rendering).
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Worldwide Language Support
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AVS/Express is enabled for use with the Western European language locales described below. English and Japanese locales are supported with local strings for the User Interface and Network Editor.
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1.7 HP Platforms Prerequisites
This section provides system prerequisites specific to the HP platform.
HP distributes a patch which corrects a memory leak in the libcl.2 system library. The patch number is PHSS_21950. You should install PHSS_21950 and PHSS_21959 before running AVS/Express. These patches can be obtained from the HP web site (requires proper ID and password):
http://us-support2.external.hp.com/wpsl/bin/doc.pl/screen=wpslDisplayPatch
Compilers and Language Libraries Required
AVS/Express was compiled with the HP ANSI C compiler (c89 -D_HPUX_SOURCE) and the HP ANSI C++ compiler (aCC -D_HPUX_SOURCE). It is linked dynamically with the HP C++ compiler's libraries.
C++
- You must have the C++ libC.sl library present on your system to run the express executable.
- You must have the C++ development environment to relink both the express and user process.
To determine what compilers are available on your system, select "General" from the "Toolboxes" pop-up menu on the HP VUE panel, and then select "System Info".
FORTRAN
You must have the FORTRAN runtime libraries that form part of the standard HP-UX installation to relink the express process with the Annotation and Graphing Kit and the PrintViewer present.
To remove this FORTRAN dependency, you must relink AVS/Express without the Annotation and Graphing Kit and the PrintViewer. See Removing Fortran Dependencies, for information on removing this dependency.
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Uses the native graphics hardware.
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The hardware renderer will work with the CRX, CRX24, CRX24Z, CRX48Z, HCRX8, HCRX8Z, HCRX24, HCRX24Z, Visualize-8, Visualize-24 or Visualize-48 graphics adapters as well as any built-in graphics adapter that comes on some platforms.
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The software renderer operates on any supported HP workstation model with an 8- or 24-plane color frame buffer, the XPutImage xlib call, and a local X server that supports them.
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AVS/Express is linked dynamically with the HP C++ compiler's libraries.
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- You must have the C++ libC.sl library present on your system to run the express executable.
- You must have the C++ development environment to relink both the express and user process.
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- Select HP VUE->Toolboxes->General.
- Select "System Info."
- Verify presence of libC.sl library.
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You must have the Fortran runtime libraries that form part of the standard HP-UX installation to relink the express process with the Annotation and Graphing Kit and the PrintViewer.
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Worldwide Language Support
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All the Western European languages supported by AVS/Express are available on HP-UX. The default locale names are the language names, for example, french and german are valid locales for the HP-UX system. These default locales use HP-specific character sets, but AVS/Express requires fonts based on ISO 8859-1. You must add this codeset field to the locale name.
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english.iso88591 american.iso88591 french.iso88591 c-french.iso88591 german.iso88591 spanish.iso88591 portuguese.iso88591 italian.iso88591 dutch.iso88591 danish.iso88591 swedish.iso88591 norwegian.iso88591 icelandic.iso88591 finnish.iso88591
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The following Eastern European locales use the ISO 8859 character sets by default and are enabled for use by AVS/Express on the HP-UX:
czech polish hungarian russian
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The default Greek and Turkish locales use HP-specific character sets GREEK8 and TURKISH8 respectively. AVS/Express requires the corresponding ISO 8859 character sets, so you must use these modified system locale names. These locales are enabled:
greek.iso88597 turkish.iso88599
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The default Japanese locale on HP-UX is called japanese. It uses the HP-specific JAPAN15 character set. AVS/Express requires the JIS X 0208 character set, with fonts mapped with the EUC encoding, so you must use a modified locale. This locale is supported by AVS/Express on HP-UX:
AVS/Express does not support the special Japanese locale katakana.
There is only one Korean locale on HP-UX. It is called korean, and it uses the HP-specific KOREA15 character set. AVS/Express requires the KSC 5601 character set. It is expected that Korean cannot be supported by AVS/Express on HP-UX, although this has not been tested.
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The simplified Chinese locale on HP-UX is called chinese-s. It uses the HP-specific PRC15 character set. AVS/Express requires the GB 2312 character set. It is expected that Simplified Chinese cannot be supported by AVS/Express on HP-UX, although this has not been tested.
AVS/Express does not support the traditional Chinese locale chinese-t.
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To modify the default locale for your environment:
- Edit the /usr/vue/config/Xconfig file.
- Change the resource value for Vuelogin*language. For example, to change to the Japanese EUC locale, replace
Vuelogin*language: japanese
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Vuelogin*language: japanese.euc
For more details see the HP publication Native Language Support: User's Guide.
The HP-UX inquiry for system locale returns a list of names, one for each aspect of the locale. The list also contains some unusual field separators. Here is example output for the default locale when you have set the XP_DEBUG_LOCALE environment variable:
Express: LANG is not set Express: system locale is /:C;:C;:C;:C;:C;:C;:C;/ Express: express locale is C Default
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1.8 HP/Compaq Tru64 UNIX Prerequisites
This section provides system prerequisites specific to the HP/Compaq UNIX platform (formerly DEC Alpha OSF) platform.
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Software Renderer Requirement
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The software renderer supported by AVS/Express works on any supported workstation model with an 8- or 24-plane color frame buffer, the XPutImage Xlib call, and a local X server that supports them.
The supported software renderer implements a set of graphics primitives (polygons, lighting model, perspective, shading, color, and others) in software, rendering the resulting image into an X Window System image.
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OpenGL Hardware Renderer Requirement
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AVS/Express supports an OpenGL hardware renderer for DEC graphics options. It can be used by any DEC graphics options that have 8 or 24 color planes and a Z-buffer and that support OpenGL in RGB mode. (See Appendix B, Hardware and Software Renderers.) The xglinfo inquiry utility, installed in /usr/examples/GL/tools/xglinfo, is part of the Open3D OpenGL Examples software subset. In general, all current DEC products except the HX entry level graphics option on the Alpha AXP 3000 series have the necessary support for hardware rendering.
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Window System Requirements
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Your window system must provide consistent placement of AVS/Express Viewer windows on the screen. You can do this in either of the following ways:
- Set the XP_WIN_PLACEMENT environment variable, which determines window placement, to None as follows:
- setenv XP_WIN_PLACEMENT None
- In your .Xdefaults file, change the resource that interprets window position information to True. For example, if you are using the Motif window manager, set Mwm*positionIsFrame as follows:
- Mwm*positionIsFrame: True
- Note that if you modify the .Xdefaults file, you may affect the way windows are displayed in other software programs you are running.
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Compilers and Language Libraries
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AVS/Express was compiled with the C compiler at optimization level -O2, with ANSI mode enabled ( -std1), the C++ compiler version 6.2-024 and the Fortran-77 compiler `f77' version 5.3.
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AVS/Express is dynamically linked to all system libraries that are available in shareable form, including C, C++ and FORTRAN-77. The C runtime environment is a mandatory part of the operating system, so this will already be part of your base system. However, you need to install the C++ and Fortran-77 runtime environments (from the Digital UNIX operating system CD).
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You need to install the C++ runtime environments to run AVS/Express. The C++ runtime environment is in the file DEC_C++_RTL, subset CXXSHRDA on the Digital UNIX CD. You do not need licenses or PAKs to install this operating system option.
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AVS/Express was linked with the C++ linker, so you need this linker to rebuild the AVS/Express executable.You do not need the C++ development option to build projects with C source modules in the user process, or to run applications in the user or express processes. You need to install the C++ development option to relink any AVS/Express project that runs in the express process.
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You need to install the Fortran-77 runtime environments to run AVS/Express. The FORTRAN-77 runtime environment is in file DEC_Fortran_RTL, subset DFARTL on the Digital UNIX CD. You do not need licenses or PAKs to install this operating system option.
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To remove FORTRAN dependencies, you must relink AVS/Express without the Annotation and Graphing Kit and the PrintViewer. See Removing Fortran Dependencies, for information on removing these dependencies.
Although AVS/Express must be linked with FORTRAN libraries if the Annotation and Graphing Kit and PrintViewer are present in the express executable, AVS/Express does not provide a FORTRAN Application Programming Interface (API) nor support the import of user code written in FORTRAN.
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AVS/Express was built with OpenGL from Digital Open3D version 4.5. AVS/Express is dynamically linked to all shareable system libraries, including X, X Extensions, X Toolkit, OSF/Motif and OpenGL (GL, GL Utilities and GLX protocol interface).
Note: These shared libraries must be available in the runtime environment to run AVS/Express.
The X and OSF/Motif runtime environments are mandatory parts of the operating system for workstation configurations. Your base system will already have them loaded.
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The OpenGL runtime environment is loaded from the Layered Products CD #1, product #11, product name Open3D. Three sets of software are required from Open3D:
- Base support in subsets O3DDWSBASE and O3DDWSCOMMON.
- Hardware driver support, for instance, subset O3DDWSZLXM if you have a ZLX-M graphics option.
- OpenGL libraries (GL, GL utilities and GLX protocol interface) in subset O3DDWSGLBASE. Select the runtime environment when prompted by the installation script.
Note: You need the OPEN3D license to load this software.
The license PAK is available from DEC at a nominal fee.
It is possible to remove the dependency on OpenGL. To do this, you relink the express process without the OpenGL renderer using the C++ linker from the C++ development option. See Appendix B, Hardware and Software Renderers.
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Worldwide Language Support
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Compaq Tru64 UNIX supplies individual locales packaged into software subsets on the operating system CD-ROM. There are no licenses to buy or configure, but you must unpack the relevant subsets using the wwinstall tool before you can successfully use these nondefault locales. See your Tru64 UNIX installation guide for details.
You must specify each locale in the LANG environment variable with a codeset field. For most European languages, this is the relevant ISO8859 character set. Asian languages have standard characters sets, perhaps with DEC extensions, and DEC-specific codesets.
Locale names with optional modifiers of the form @modifier are recognized, but the modifier itself is ignored and has no effect on the operation of AVS/Express.
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en_US.ISO8859-1, en_GB.ISO8859-1 fr_FR.ISO8859-1, fr_BE.ISO8859-1 fr_CA,ISO8859-1, fr_CH.ISO8859-1 de_DE.ISO8859-1, de_CH.ISO8859-1 es_ES.ISO8859-1 pt_PT.ISO8859-1 it_IT.ISO8859-1 nl_NL.ISO8859-1, nl_BE.ISO8859-1 da_DK.ISO8859-1 sv_SE.ISO8859-1 no_NO.ISO8859-1 is_IS.ISO8859-1 fi_FI.ISO8859-1
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1.9 Database Kit Requirements
After you install AVS/Express Release 7.1, you can link it with the Database Kit. Read this requirements section only if you intend to link AVS/Express with the Database Kit.
- Note: The Database Kit is available in the AVS/Express Developer Edition only; it is not available in the Visualization Edition.
Supported Platforms
The table below lists the operating platforms and the databases that are supported in this release of AVS/Express. Note that the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) database is supported only on Windows platforms.
Table 0-9
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Requirements
You must meet the following requirements in order to use the Database Kit with a supported database.
- If you will be using an Oracle database, the database server software must be available either locally or on a networked host.
- If you are using the ODBC Data Option, Visual C++ must be installed on the local machine where you are installing AVS/Express.
- Note: Microsoft Visual C++ is required if you plan on creating modules in AVS/Express.
- The Database Kit includes object code from the various database client libraries. These libraries are used to link to AVS/Express, therefore the libraries must be accessible to the machine where you are installing AVS/Express.
- In addition to insuring that the libraries are accessible, you should note that these libraries require additional executable filespace when linked to AVS/Express. You should refer to the ODBC or Oracle documentation to determine the files that are required and the space requirements.
- Your database administrator must set up local configuration files and environment variables so you can access a database on the server. Refer to the ODBC or Oracle documentation for details and configuring your system.
