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Installing AVS/Express

Chapter 1 System Prerequisites Release 7.0

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 7.0). Requirements for operating systems, graphics libraries and compilers are also listed

Release 7.0 of AVS/Express is available for the following platforms:

Table 0-1
Platform
Motif
C
C++
FORTRAN
HP/Compaq Tru64 Alpha AXP 5.1
2.1
6.3-026
6.2-024
5.3
HP HP-UX 11
2.1
c89 A.11.01.00
aC++ A.03.15
f77 B.11.00.01
HP HP-UX 11 64-bit
2.1
c89 A.11.01.00
aC++ A.03.15
f90 2.7
Macintosh Darwin 7.X (Mac OS X 10.3)
2.2
3.3
3.3
3.4
Red Hat Linux 8.0, 9 Intel x86
2.2
3.2
3.2
3.2
Red Hat Linux EL 3.0 x86_64
2.2
3.2
3.2
3.2
Red Hat Linux EL 3.0 Intel Itanium
2.2
3.2
3.2
3.2
SGI IRIX 6.5 (n32 MIPS3)
1.2
7.3
7.3
7.3
SGI IRIX 6.5 (n64 MIPS4)
1.2
7.3
7.3
7.3
Solaris 8
2.1
Forte 6
Forte 6
Forte 6
Solaris 8 64-bit
2.1
Forte 6
Forte 6
Forte 6
Intel Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP
N/A
MSVC++ 6.0
MSVC++ 6.0
Digital Fortran 6.0
Intel Windows 2000, XP (.NET 2003)
N/A
MSVC++ 7.1
MSVC++ 7.1
Intel Fortran 8.1

Note: On all UNIX platforms, gzip must be present in order to install AVS/Express. If gzip is not installed on your UNIX machine, downloads 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.
Note: AVS/Express for Tru64 Alpha and Windows MSVC++ 6.0 will not be available on the CD. They are available for download. Please contact support@avs.com for more information.

1.2 Windows Platform Prerequisites

This section contains the prerequisites for various Windows platforms.

Table 0-2
Operating System
 
Requirement
Windows 2000, or XP (.NET 2003)
 
To Verify
  1. Bring up Windows Explorer.
  2. Select Help->About Windows.
Environment Variables
 
Requirement
MACHINE=pc. This setting should be added by the installer.
 
Requirement
XP_DOTNET=1, for Windows .NET version only. This setting should be added by the installer.
 
To Verify
  1. Select Start->Settings->Control Panel from the Task Bar.
  2. Double-click the System icon in the Control Panel.
  3. Select the Environment tab folder and verify that the MACHINE environment variable is set correctly.
C/C++ Compiler
 
Optional
Microsoft Visual C++ 7.1 (or .NET 2003) is required only if you plan on creating modules in AVS/Express.
Fortran Compiler
 
Optional
Intel Fortran 8.1 is required only if you plan on creating fortran modules in AVS/Express.

Table 0-3
Table 0-4
Operating System
 
Requirement
Windows NT 4.0, 2000, or XP (MSVC++ 6.0)
 
To Verify
  1. Bring up Windows Explorer.
  2. Select Help->About Windows.
Environment Variables
 
Requirement
MACHINE=pc6, for Windows (MSVC++ 6.0) version only. This setting should be added by the installer.
 
To Verify
  1. Select Start->Settings->Control Panel from the Task Bar.
  2. Double-click the System icon in the Control Panel.
  3. Select the Environment tab folder and verify that the MACHINE environment variable is set correctly.
C/C++ Compiler
 
Optional
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 is required only if you plan on creating modules in AVS/Express.
Fortran Compiler
 
Optional
Digital Fortran 6.0 is required only if you plan on creating fortran modules in AVS/Express.
 

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 10.3, 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 7.0 for Mac OS X / Darwin uses Open Motif 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 3.3 for C and C++. Compilers for C and C++ 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 net. AVS/Express was compiled using g77 3.4 from http://hpc.sourceforce.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 7.0 for Red Hat Linux 8.0, 9 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 Red Hat 8.0, 9 version of AVS/Express comes with a special executable, bin/linux/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 7.0 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 7.0 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/linux/missing to <install-dir>/lib/linux. 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 the s8 platform: s8 is a 32-bit application, s8_64 is a 64-bit application and requires a 64-bit processor.

Worldwide Language Support
 
Requirement
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.
 
Languages
da
de, de_CH
en_AU, en_CA, en_IE, en_NZ, en_UK, en_US
es
fr, fr_BE, fr_CA, fr_CH
it
nl, nl_BE
no
pt, pt_BR
su
sv

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.

The C++ compiler is also a separately purchased product.

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 0-5
Rendering Hardware
 
Requirement
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.
 
To Verify
Type /usr/gfx/gfxinfo.
The first line will verify which graphics board you have. The following lines will give the details of the board.
Rendering Software
 
Requirement
The software renderer will work on any SGI work station.
C/C++
 
Requirement
See C/C++.
Fortran
 
Requirement
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.
 
To Install
If it is not available on your system:
  1. Change to the /usr/lib directory.
  2. Copy libftn.so from the ftn_eoe.sw.lib package on the IRIX CD.
OpenGL
 
Supported Options
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).
Worldwide Language Support
 
Requirement
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.
 
Languages
en, en_AU, en_CA, en_US
fr, fr_BE, fr_CA, fr_CH
de, de_AT, de_CH
nl, nl_BE
es, pt, it, da, sv, no, is, fi
sk, pl
ru, el, tr
kr, ja_JP.EUC

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++

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.

Table 0-6
Rendering Hardware
 
Requirement
Uses the native graphics hardware.
 
Adapters
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.
Rendering Software
 
Requirement
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.
Compilers and Language Libraries
 
Requirement
AVS/Express is linked dynamically with the HP C++ compiler's libraries.
 
Library Requirement
  • You must have the C++ libC.sl library present on your system to run the express executable.
  • If libC.sl is not present on your system, you can copy a version of libC.sl that is included in the AVS/Express HP distribution.
  • Copy <install-dir>/express/lib/<machine type>/missing/libC.sl to /usr/lib.
This will allow you to run the express executable, but you will not be able to relink the express executable. You must have the C++ development environment to relink both the express and user process.
 
To Verify
  1. Select HP VUE->Toolboxes->General.
  2. Select "System Info."
  3. Verify presence of libC.sl library.
C and C++
 
Requirement
See C++.
Fortran
 
Requirement
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.
Worldwide Language Support
 
Requirement
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.
 
Western European
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
 
Eastern European
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
 
Greek and Turkish
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
 
Japanese and Korean
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:
japanese.euc
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.
 
Chinese
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.
 
Modifying Locale
To modify the default locale for your environment:
  1. Edit the /usr/vue/config/Xconfig file.
  2. Change the resource value for Vuelogin*language. For example, to change to the Japanese EUC locale, replace 
Vuelogin*language:     japanese
with 
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

1.8 HP/Compaq Tru64 UNIX Prerequisites

This section provides system prerequisites specific to the HP/Compaq UNIX platform (formerly DEC Alpha OSF) platform.

Table 0-7
Rendering Hardware
 
Software Renderer Requirement
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.
 
OpenGL Hardware Renderer Requirement
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.
Window System Requirements
 
Requirement
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.
Compilers and Language Libraries
 
Requirement
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.
 
Language Libraries
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).
C++
 
Requirement
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.
 
C++ Linker
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.
Fortran
 
Requirement
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.
 
FORTRAN Dependencies
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.
OpenGL
 
Required
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.
 
Loading the OpenGL Runtime Environment
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.
Worldwide Language Support
 
Requirement
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.
 
Western European
 
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
 
Eastern European
cs_CZ.ISO8859-2
sk_SK.ISO8859-2
pl_PL.ISO8859-2
hu_HU.ISO8859-2
 
Single-Byte
ru_RU.ISO8859-5
el_GR.ISO8859-7
tr_TR.ISO8859-9
 
Japanese
ja_JP, ja_JP.eucJP, ja_JP.deckanji, ja_JP.sdeckanji
The Japanese Shift-JIS locale, ja_JP.SJIS, is not supported.
 
Other Asian
ko_KR, ko_KR.eucJP, ko_KR.deckorean
zh_CN, zh_CN.dechanyu, zh_HK.dechanyu

1.9 Database Kit Requirements

After you install AVS/Express Release 7.0, 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 0-8
UNIX Hardware
Operating System
Oracle
ODBC
Alpha AXP
HP/Compaq Tru64 UNIX 5.1
8.1.6
N/A
HP
HP-UX 11
8.1.6
N/A
Intel x86
Red Hat Linux 8.0/9/EL 3.0
8.0
N/A
SGI (n32)
IRIX 6.5 (32 bit)
N/A
N/A
SGI (n64)
IRIX 6.5 (64 bit)
8.1.6
N/A
Sun
Solaris 8
8.1.6
N/A
Sun
Solaris 8 64-bit
8.1.6
N/A

Table 0-9
PC Hardware
Operating System
Oracle
ODBC
Intel
Windows 2000, XP
Windows NT 4.0
8.1.6
2.0

Requirements

You must meet the following requirements in order to use the Database Kit with a supported database.

Note: Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 is required if you plan on creating modules in AVS/Express.

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