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Which platforms are
supported?
slap should work on almost every UNIX and UNIX-like operating-system
released since 1992, and several older ones too!
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General Requirements
To build slap from source, you need:
* a host system that provides the POSIX 1003.1 API (IEEE Std 1003.1-1988)
- basically, any recent UNIX or similar system.
* an ANSI C compiler
* the MJS Utility C Library
* a make utility (System-V, BSD, GNU, or any other flavour)
To drive the SLP-100, SLP-200 and SLP-240 printers, your system must support
57600 baud serial-port operations in it's programming interface. The
command:
slap -version
will tell you if the system supports 57600 baud in general, but note that
some systems that do not normally allow 57600 baud, can do so for specific
types of serial-port: see the manpage for details.
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Tested Platforms
* Solaris 2.x
slap has been tested on Solaris/SPARC 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7 and 8;
built with both the SunPro C compiler and the GNU C compiler.
A wide variety of Sun SPARC systems and clones have been used, ranging
from an ancient SPARCstation-2 clone up to a 14-CPU Enterprise 6000
(Sunfire).
Various serial-port configurations have been used: the built-in serial
ports, a Magma 8SP plug-in SBus 8-port serial card, and even a Central
Data EtherLite network port-server.
* Linux/x86
o Slackware Linux 2 (kernel 1.0.14)
o Slackware Linux 3.0.0 (kernel 1.2.38)
o RedHat Linux 4.1 (kernel 2.0.27)
o RedHat Linux 6.0 (kernel 2.2.6)
The test systems were all home-brew PCs.
Various serial-port configurations were tried: on-board serial-ports
with 16550AF- and 16450-compatible controllers, 16-bit ISA plug-in
serial card with NatSemi 16450 controllers, and an 8-bit ISA plug-in
serial card with Intel 8250 controllers.
* Irix 5.3 on SGI Indigo (4D-RPC)
Using the onboard serial-port.
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Platforms Verified by Others
* Solaris/x86 2.6, using the GNU C compiler, on a Dell PC
* Solaris/x86 7 and 8, using the GNU C compiler, on various PCs
* Mandrake Linux 7, using the GNU C compiler, on various PCs
* Irix 5.x, using the Irix C compiler, on an SGI Indy (4D-???)
* AIX 4.1.5 through 4.3.3, using the GNU C compiler, on IBM RS/6000
* DYNIX/ptx 1.3, using Sequent ANSI C compiler, on an old Sequent ELS
* SPIF (stc) serial-ports under Solaris/SPARC
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Volunteers?
It would be handy if someone would volunteer to test other systems and
hardware, especially:
* OpenBSD and NetBSD
* BSD 4.4
* HP-UX (using the HP C Compiler)
* Apple Macintosh running A/UX
* QNX, because it's different
* IDRIS or transIDRIS, for old times' sake
* Sun Enterprise 10000 (Starfire), just so I can show off!
* PCMCIA serial-ports under Linux and Solaris
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