IDL 8.4 Platform and Feature Support

Platform Support for IDL 8.4

Platform	Hardware	Operating System	Supported Versions a
Windows	Intel/AMD 32-bit	Windows	XP SP2, Vista, 7, 8
	Intel/AMD 64-bit		XP, Vista, 7, 8
Macintosh	Intel 64-bit	OS X	10.8, 10.9 b
UNIX	Intel/AMD 64-bit	Linux	Kernel 2.6.32, glibc 2.12
	SPARC 64-bit	Solaris	10
	Intel/AMD 64-bit

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

^b An X-Windows manager is required forMacintosh. IDL was tested using XQuarts 2.7.4.

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Feature Support for IDL 8.4

The following table indicates which platforms support the corresponding feature. IDL features not listed in this table are assumed to work on all supported platforms.

Feature	Windows		Mac OS X	Linux	Solaris
	Intel 32-bit	Intel 64-bit	Intel 64-bit	Intel 64-bit	SPARC 64-bit	Intel 64-bit
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 (IDLffDXF object)	*
GRIB_* routines	*	*	*	*
Internationalization (I18N_*) conversion routines	*	*
IDL Advanced Math and Stats (IMSL NumericalLibrary)	*	*		*	*
IDL Workbench	*	*	*	*
JPIP (IDLnetJPIP)	*	*	*	*	*
MrSID (IDLffMrSID)	*
OPeNDAP for NetCDF	*	*	*	*
Video Read (IDLffVideoRead)	*	*	*	*
Video Write (IDLffVideoWrite)	*	*	*	*
Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs)			*	*	*	*