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Installing McIDAS-X on Unix or Mac OS X Workstations

The system administrator or person who installs McIDAS-X will use these installation instructions.

Unidata McIDAS-X and -XCD have been successfully built at the UPC on the platforms in the following table. McIDAS-XCD has been tested at the UPC on two of these platforms, Sun Solaris SPARC and Fedora Core 5 Linux.

VendorOperating System(s)Compilers
AppleMacOS-X 10.4 (Darwin)g77, gcc(1)
FreeBSD ProjectFreeBSD 4.9gcc, f77(4)
Hewlett Packard(3)HP-UX B.11.11Vendor f77, cc 11.11.16
gcc, g77(5)
IBM(2)AIX 5.1Vendor f77, cc
gcc, g77(5)
RedHat(2) Fedora Core 5,6(3)gcc, g77, gfortran(6)
Silicon GraphicsIRIX64 6.5Vendor f77, cc
gcc,g77(5)
Sun Solaris x86 5.10Vendor f77, cc; Versions SC5.0+
gcc, g77(5)
Sun(2) Solaris SPARC 2.[6-9]Vendor f77, cc; Versions Sun Studio 11/12
gcc, g77(5)

1. MacOS-X has been successfully built using GNU gcc version 4.0, g77 version 3.4.3, and the distribution of X windws packaged with MacOS-X 10.4.

2. We believe that Unidata McIDAS-X will build and run successfully under AIX 4.[23], Fedora Core [34], Enterprise WS 3,4, and Solaris 5.[45] but we have no way of testing this.

3. In the v2006 release notes, SSEC announced cessation of support for HP-UX beginning with McIDAS-X version 2007. Unidata followed suit and decided to drop support for HP-UX in Unidata McIDAS. SSEC has extended support on HP-UX through 2009 due to Australian Bureau of Meteorology needs. Unidata has not built McIDAS-X/-XCD v2007 on HP-UX. We are deferring to SSEC's judgment of its viability.

4. cc under FreeBSD is a link to GNU gcc; f77 is GNU g77 but there is no link identifying this fact.

5. Use of GNU gcc and g77 is the only non-vendor compiler combination supported.

6. Use of GNU gcc/g77 and gcc/gfortran are the only compiler combinations supported.

NOTEs:

 

The McIDAS-X installation consists of seven tasks:

If you have ques tions about the installation, please send email to Unidata McIDAS Support <support-mcidas@unidata.ucar.edu>.


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