Native C Compiler

You will need a native C compiler and 'make' utility for your host (a native compiler is a compiler that generates code for execution on your host). This C compiler is required to compile the programs in the tools directory (on UNIX systems you will also need the native C compiler to compile the install program). The 'make' utility is needed to control the build sequence of the various subdirectories of the package.

Windows95/NT

You need Microsoft's Visual C++ Pro package in order to build this package completely.

Note that if you do use Microsoft's Visual C++ Pro package to build the complete package, you will have to type 'nmake' rather than 'make'. This applies to any of the examples shown in this on-line manual.

Also note that it is not likely that you will be able to use the 'make' utility that might be provided by the vendor of your MIPS cross compiler, because of significant differences in syntax between different 'make' programs.

UNIX Workstations

Although you will need a native "C" compiler to build this package. It does not need to be ANSI compliant, any K&R compliant compiler will suffice. Typically you can either use the compiler and 'make' utility that was supplied with your workstation, or with gcc. You can obtain gcc from the GNU ftp site.

If you are unsure whether you system has a native C compiler and 'make' utility, you can check using the following commands.

	% which cc		-- look for the standard C compiler
	% which gcc		-- look for the GNU C compiler
	% which make		-- look for the 'make' utility
	% cc foobar.c		-- Solaris2 check for optional C compiler

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