<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml;charset=UTF-8"/> <title>Frepple / Portability</title> <link rel='stylesheet' href='../styles.css' type='text/css' /> <!--PageHeaderFmt--> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="menubar"> <div id="logo" align="center"> <br/><img src='../frepple.bmp' alt="frepple" /><br/> <a href='http://www.frepple.com/'> <strong>a Free<br/>Production Planning<br/>Library</strong> </a></div> <div id="menu"> <br/> <h3><a href='../Main/HomePage.html'>Main</a></h3> <h3><a href='../UI/Main.html'>User Manual</a></h3> <h3><a href='../Tutorial/Main.html'>Tutorial</a></h3> <h3><a href='Main.html'>Reference Manual</a></h3> <h3><a href='../Main/FAQ.html'>FAQ</a></h3> <h3><a href='../reference/index.html'>C++ API</a></h3> <br/><div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="content"> <br/> <!--PageText--> <div id='wikitext'> <p><a class='wikilink' href='../Main/HomePage.html'>Main</a> > <span class='wikitrail'><a class='wikilink' href='Main.html'>Reference Manual</a> > <a class='wikilink' href='Developer.html'>Information for developers</a> > <a class='selflink' href='DeveloperPort.html'>Portability</a></span> </p> <p class='vspace'>The project is compiled and tested only for 32-bit and 64-bit linux and Windows environments, with Linux being the primary development platform. The project uses the GNU autotools build system to provide a maximum of portability. </p> <p class='vspace'>Porting to other platforms is encouraged - you'll have all required support in helping with this. </p> <p class='vspace'>Here are some areas where porting may be a bit challenging: </p> <div class='vspace'></div><ul><li>Availability of a modern C++ compiler which supports STL, templates and template specialization. <div class='vspace'></div></li><li>File system functions such as fstat, paths, directory listings <div class='vspace'></div></li><li>Availability of the Pthreads library for threading.<br /> FrePPLe currently only supports the Windows threading functions and the Pthreads. <div class='vspace'></div></li><li>Shared libraries <br />Currently the code only supports the dlopen (Solaris, Linux and various BSD flavors) and LoadLibrary (Windows) functions. <div class='vspace'></div></li><li>Availability of the Xerces-C XML parser. <div class='vspace'></div></li><li>Availability of the Python language. </li></ul> </div> <!--PageFooterFmt--> <!--HTMLFooter--> </div></div> </body> </html>
