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Download and Installation Instructions:

Evaluation Software:

This release of BX PRO for Linux is distributed as several packages, using the RedHat Package Manager 4 (RPM).

Builder Xcessory PRO for Linux consists of three products:

  • Builder Xcessory
    --a user interface design tool for X/Motif
  • EnhancementPak
    --a set of 34 new Motif-based widgets
  • ViewKit
    --a high-quality C++ application framework for X11/Motif.
 

REQUIREMENTS

On some Linux distributions, you may need to install additional required libraries. BX PRO was compiled on RedHat Linux 7.0 and requires the following system libraries:

  • ld-linux.so.2
  • libICE.so.6
  • libSM.so.6
  • libX11.so.6
  • libXext.so.6
  • libXmu.so.6
  • libXp.so.6
  • libXpm.so.4
  • libXt.so.6
  • libc.so.6
  • libdl.so.2
  • libm.so.6

 

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RPM File
Contents		 Required
/Optional		 Platform File Size
(approximate)
Builder Xcessory General Files and Documentation Required x86 2.9 MB
Builder Xcessory Binary Files Required x86 4.6 MB
BuilderXcessory 
Code Generation Files		 Required x86 264 KB
EnhancementPak Evaluation Software Required x86 809 KB
ViewKit Run Time and Development Software Required x86 957 KB
 

INSTALLATION

If you installed any other version of BX PRO for Linux, you should first remove all of the packages in that version to avoid any conflicts that may occur with this release software.
  1. Become the superuser.
  2. Change directories to the directory containing the BX PRO RPM files.
  3. Install the packages either all at once or individually in the following order:
    • rpm -i bxpro-eval-viewkit-gcc295-1.3.1-1.i386.rpm
    • rpm -i bxpro-eval-epak-3.0.3-1.i386.rpm
    • rpm -i bxpro-eval-5.0.8-1.i386.rpm
    • rpm -i bxpro-eval-binary-gcc295-5.0.8-1.i386.rpm
    • rpm -i bxpro-eval-codegen-5.0.8-1.i386.rpm

If unspecified, the BX PRO distribution will be installed in /opt/bxpro-5.0. You can specify another installation directory by using the --prefix option to the rpm command (use the --relocate option if you are using RPM version 3.0 or hi gher).
 

RUNNING BUILDER XCESSORY

After installation, a script, bx50, will be installed in /usr/bin/X11. Use this script to run Builder Xcessory.
 

DOCUMENTATION

All Builder Xcessory documentation is available online in HTML format. It is accessible from the BX Help menu or directly from Netscape at:
file:<bxpro install directory/xcessory/help/C/index.html

Updated documentation is posted periodically at the ICS website: http://linux.ics.com/