Unidata McIDAS-X - Supported Platforms

Supported Workstations

Unidata McIDAS-X,-XCD is supported on a variety of Unix and Unix-like platforms.

The UPC builds and tests McIDAS-X using the vendor-supplied and GNU gcc/g77 compilers for all of the platforms it supports.

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 two of these platforms, Sun Solaris SPARC and Fedora Core [34] Linux.

Vendor Operating System(s) Compilers

Apple MacOS-X 8.1.0 (Darwin) g77, gcc

Compaq Tru64 UNIX 5.1B 2650 Vendor f77, cc

FreeBSD Project FreeBSD 4.10 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 3,4⁽³⁾ gcc, g77⁽⁴⁾

Silicon Graphics 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⁾

Vendor	Operating System(s)	Compilers
Apple	MacOS-X 8.1.0 (Darwin)	g77, gcc
Compaq	Tru64 UNIX 5.1B 2650	Vendor f77, cc
FreeBSD Project	FreeBSD 4.10	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 3,4⁽³⁾	gcc, g77⁽⁴⁾
Silicon Graphics	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 9.0, Enterprise WS 3,4, 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.

Workstation Requirements

The following are requirements for a workstation running Unidata McIDAS by itself. The recommended minimum configuration will grow the more Unidata packages you run on your workstation.

256 MB RAM minimum; 512 MB or more is strongly recommended
512 MB swap minimum; 1 GB or more recommended
128 MB shared memory minimum; >=512 MB recommended
1 GB disk (operating system and McIDAS-X distribution only; data storage requirements can vary up to many GB)
X Window System (X11R5/X11R6 compliant)
32-bit color displays
Keyboard and three-button mouse
TCP/IP Ethernet

Software Requirements

Fortran and C compilers - we recommend the Free Software Foundation's GNU gcc and g77)
GNU gunzip

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