The system administrator or person who installs McIDAS-X will use these installation instructions.
The UPC builds and tests McIDAS-X using vendor-supplied compilers for all of the platforms it supports. The gcc/g77 compiler combination should work on all supported platforms.
Unidata McIDAS-X and -XCD have been successfully built at the UPC on the platforms in the table that follows. McIDAS-XCD has been thoroughly tested at the UPC on only three of these platforms, Sun Solaris SPARC, Sun Solaris x86, and Fedora Core 1 Linux.
| Vendor | Operating System(s) | Compilers |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | MacOS-X 7.4.0 (Darwin) | g77, gcc |
| Compaq | Tru64 UNIX 5.1B | Vendor f77, cc |
| FreeBSD Project | FreeBSD 4.[789] | gcc, f77(3) |
| Hewlett Packard | HP-UX B.11.00, B.11.11(2) | Vendor f77, cc gcc, g77(4) |
| IBM(1) | AIX 5.1 | Vendor f77, cc gcc, g77(4) |
| RedHat(1) | Fedora Core 1(3) | gcc, g77(4) |
| Silicon Graphics | IRIX, IRIX64 6.5 | Vendor f77, cc gcc,g77(4) |
| Sun | Solaris x86 2.[789] | Vendor f77, cc; Versions SC5.0
gcc, g77(4) |
| Sun(1) | Solaris SPARC 2.[6-9] | Vendor f77, cc; Versions WS7 gcc, g77(4) |
1. We believe that Unidata McIDAS-X will build and run successfully under AIX 4.[23], RedHat Linux 6.x - 9.0, and Solaris 5.[45] but we have no way of testing this.
2. SSEC tests McIDAS-X on HP-UX 11.11. Since the UPC does not have a 11.11 machine that can be used for testing, we defer to SSEC's judgement of its suitability.
3. cc under FreeBSD is a link to GNU gcc; f77 is GNU g77 but there is no link identifying this fact.
4. Use of GNU gcc and g77 is the only non-vendor compiler combination supported.
Note: On Linux systems, we recommend that you use the GNOME desktop environment. Other desktops, such as KDE, will not display the McIDAS-X windows correctly.
The McIDAS-X installation consists of seven tasks:
If you have questions about the installation, please send email to <support@unidata.ucar.edu> .