SCO UnixWare 2.1 Technical Summary - Bandwidthco Computer ...

An SCO Technical White Paper Version 2.1.2
SCO UnixWare 2.1 Software Development Kit (SDK)
The SDK (an optional add-on product) consists of the application programming interface libraries
as well as the basic tools that the applications developer can use to create applications for the
Application Server or for the Personal Edition version of SCO UnixWare. The tools are
particularly suitable for developing graphical and network applications. The major components
include:
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• C compilation system (part of base product)
• Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and libraries
• desktop manager development
• enhanced debugger
• kernel debugger
• IHV development kit
• graphics development package
• Motif development package
• network management software development kit
• Software Development Kit documentation
• software packaging tools
C and C++ Compilation Systems
The C and C++ compilation systems have been optimized for the Pentium and Pentium Pro
processors. The C++ compiler and the C++ Standard Components Class Library enable the use
of modern object-oriented programming techniques. The C and C++ compilation systems
support both shared object libraries and dynamic linking.
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
A complete set of application programming interface (API) library routines and related toolkits
and documentation are provided to simplify the creation of distributed client-server applications,
and networked, graphical and multithreaded applications. The libraries and toolkits provided with
the SDK for this purpose include:
• User threads support library: an enhanced set of APIs for providing high performance
synchronization, scheduling and user-level threads facilities. Included are routines to create
threads, terminate threads, wait for threads, and adjust threads’ scheduling characteristics.
• Thread safe libraries: the libraries libc, libm and libnsl have been made thread-safe to
support multithreaded applications. This ensures that parallel threads which call the same
library function will not interfere with each other.
• X Server Graphics Development Package: provides basic library and header file support
for programming in the X11R5 environment. This includes the font server, X server, Xlib and
X intrinsics. Clients and utilities used to support SCO UnixWare X Server development are
also included.
• Desktop Manager Development Package: provides the desktop manager API support
including the drag-and-drop and help APIs. It provides a variety of graphics libraries and
tools to support the graphics capabilities in SCO UnixWare.
• Motif Development Package: provides the Common Desktop Environment Motif toolkit,
based on OSF/Motif 1.2.3. It provides the tools necessary to develop applications using
Motif.
• Network Development Package: provides the header files and libraries for writing
networking programs which use XTI/TLI, RPC, sockets, network selection facility, and nameto-addressing
APIs.
• NetWare Development Package: provides development header files and libraries for writing
and debugging network management, IPX/SPX, and NetWare-aware client applications.