Platform and Feature Support for IDL 8.0

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• Platform and Feature Support for IDL 8.0
  
  
  

  Platform support for IDL 8.0

  
  
  

  Platform	Vendor	Hardware	Operating System	Supported Versions a
  Windows	Microsoft	Intel/AMD x86 32- and 64-bit	Windows	XP SP2, Vista, 7
  Macintosh	Apple	Intel 32- and 64-bit	OS X	10.5.7 b, 10.6 b
  UNIX	Sun	SPARC 32- and 64-bit	Solaris c,d	10
  		Intel/AMD x86_64 64-bit
  	Various	Intel/AMD x86 32-bit and x86_64 64-bit	Linux c,e	Kernel version 2.6.9 glibc version 2.3.4 GTK version 2.4.13

  
  
  

  ^a Supported versions indicate that IDL was either built on (the lowest version listed) or tested on that version. You can install and run software on other versions that are binary-compatible with those listed.

  ^b The IDL Workbench on Mac OS X requires Java 1.6. The Apple X11 X-Windows manager is required for Macintosh. If X11 is not
  already installed, install it from the Mac OS X installation disk.

  ^c The IDL Workbench requires the GTK library version 2.4 or later. Printing functionality in the Workbench requires GTK library version 2.10 or later. If GTK version 2.4 or later is not available, IDL will only run in console mode.

  ^d The IDL Workbench is not supported on Solaris SPARC 32-bit/64-bit and Solaris x86 64-bit machines.

  ^e The Linux version of IDL is built on Red Hat 4. If your version of Linux is
  compatible with the listed kernel and glibc versions, you should be able to install and run IDL.

  
  

  Feature Support for IDL 8.0

  
  
  

  IDL Feature	Windows		Mac OS X		Linux		Solaris
  	32bit	64bit	32bit	64bit	32bit	64bit	SPARC 32bit	SPARC 64bit	Intel 64bit
  Active X: WIDGET_ACTIVEX (IDLcomActiveX object)	*
  COM Object-Export (via Export Bridge Assistant)	*	*
  COM Object-Import (IDLcomIDispatch object)	*
  DataMiner	*	*			*	*	*	*
  DICOM Network Services	*	*			*		*
  DICOM Read/Write (IDLffDicomEx object)	*	*			*		*
  DICOM Read (IDLffDicom object)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
  DXF file format (IDFffDXF object)	*				*		*
  IDL Advanced Math and Stats (IMSL Numerical Library)	*		*		*	*	*	*
  MrSID (IDLffMrSID)	*
  Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs)			*	*	*	*	*	*	*
  IDL Workbench	*	*	*	*	*	*