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Technical Requirements

Hardware and compiler configurations:

Hardware	Compilers
Win32	Visual C++ 8.0
Linux 32bit	gcc 4.0.x
Linux 64bit	gcc 4.1.x
Compaq Alpha Tru64 UNIX 5.0A	cxx 6.5
SGI (32 bit) IRIX 6.5	CC 7.3
SGI (64 bit) IRIX 6.5	CC 7.3
HP (32bit) HP-UX 11.00	aCC 3.33
Sun SunOS 5.7	CC 5.2

Some toolboxes may not be delivered on all the above platforms. 128 Mb RAM and about 200 Mb of disk space is recommended for a full Diffpack installation.

To get the ultimate performance of your Diffpack installation under Linux, a number of utilities should be available. On many systems these utilities are already installed, but for your convenience we provide links where you can download the utilities.

Utility	Platforms	Function
ghostscript	Linux	Postcript previewer
ghostview	Linux	GUI for ghostscript (required)
tcl	Linux	Scripting language
tk	Linux	GUI extension of tcl (required)
tix	Linux	More widgets for tcl/tk (both required)
TkPerl (source code)	Linux	Scripting language
Mesa	Linux	Public domain implementation of OpenGL
Vtk	Linux	Scientific visualization engine (requires Mesa). Contains libs,include files and vtk shell
libf2c	Linux	Utility for FORTRAN to C converted code
plotmtv	Linux	Simple-to-use visualization program
gnuplot	Linux	Programmable curve plotter
gawk	Linux	GNU's version of awk
gnumake	Linux	GNU's version of make (needed for Diffpack makefiles)
netpbm (release 7)	Linux	Collection of bitmap utilities (only a selection of netpbm utilities is included)
mpeg_encode 1.0.2	Linux	MPEG encoder

To install these utilities, download the relevant files and unpack them from one level above the Diffpack root directory $NOR. Use gunzip and tar to do the unpacking.

Note: To use versions of these tools already installed on your system, please make according changes in $DPDIR/etc/setup/common.sh and $DPDIR/etc/setup/common.csh.