The AnT 4.669 software package has been developed under a Unix/Linux environment. It has been successfully tested for Sun Solaris (versions 2.7, 2.8, 2.9), as well as for FreeBSD and the Linux distributions from Debian, Fedora, SuSE, Ubuntu. A port to the Windows platforms (Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP) is also available.

In the following, the requirements are listed in detail:

Hardware:

• Processor: Intel Pentium (or a similar CPU) with 166MHz or higher
• Memory: 32MB, we suggest at least 64MB
• Harddisk: 30MB free space for minimal installation
• Network: In order to distribute scans on several computing nodes (distributed or grid computing), a network environment is necessary. The communication between the nodes is based on TCP/IP sockets, hence your network has to support the TCP/IP protocol.

Software:

• A compiler for the language C++ is necessary. We suggest the GNU gcc compiler version 4.0.0 or higher. See gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs for the online documentation of the gcc compiler. The table below shows the versions of gcc for which the AnT 4.669 software package was successfully built.
  
  

gcc version successful build 4.5.1 yes (2010-08-25) 4.5.0 yes (2010-04-28) 4.4.4 yes (2010-05-18) 4.4.3 yes (2010-01-25) 4.4.2 yes (2009-10-19) 4.4.1 yes (2009-08-24) 4.4.0 yes (2009-04-24) 4.3.3 yes (2009-02-02) 4.3.2 yes (2009-01-13) 4.3.1 yes (2009-01-13) 4.3.0 yes (2009-01-13) 4.2.4 yes (2008-05-23)

gcc version successful build 4.2.3 yes (2008-02-04) 4.2.2 yes (2007-10-10) 4.2.1 yes (2007-08-10) 4.2.0 yes (2007-05-16) 4.1.2 yes (2007-02-05) 4.1.1 yes (2006-05-29) 4.1.0 yes (2006-03-02) 4.0.4 yes (2007-02-05) 4.0.3 yes (2006-03-13) 4.0.2 yes (2005-09-29) 4.0.1 yes (2005-07-11) 4.0.0 yes (2005-04-22)



We would appreciate it very much, if you report to AnT when you have successfully built the software package with a gcc version not listed in the table.


• The graphical user interface of the AnT 4.669 software package reqiures the GTK+ toolkit. Currently, the following versions of the gtk+ toolkit are supported: gtk+ 2.x, gtk+ 1.x. For more information about this software we refer to the tutorials GTK+ 2.0 Tutorial and GTK v1.2 Tutorial. The precompiled version of the GTK+ Runtime Environment for Windows is available here. The sources of the GTK+ Runtime Environment for Linux/Solaris is available here here.


• If you want to use he OpenGL based online visualization of the AnT 4.669 software package the following libraries are required:
  • X11R6 libraries: SM, ICE, Xmu, Xext, Xi, X11, Xt
  • The posix thread library: pthread
  • The OpenGL libraries GL and GLU: We use Mesa 3D Graphics Library (versions 6.0 - 6.5.3, 7.0 - 7.0.4, 7.1 - 7.8.1)
  • GLUT - The OpenGL Utility Toolkit: You can use either MesaGlut or the original GLUT by Mark Kilgard or freeglut or OpenGLUT
    
  OpenGL is a cross-platform standard for 3D rendering and 3D hardware acceleration. This software runtime library ships with all Windows, MacOS, Linux and Unix systems.
  
  
• For Unix/Linux platforms, the source code of the AnT 4.669 software package is available. To build and install the software on your system, the GNU tools make and libtool (versions 1.5 or higher) are necessary.
  
  On Windows platforms, binaries are available. You only have to make sure, that the GTK+ Runtime Environment for Windows is installed on your system.
  
  
• Any tool for data visualization. We suggest to use gnuplot. Gnuplot is a command driven interactive plotting program. It can be used to plot functions and data points in both two- and three-dimensional plots in many different formats.

Third Party Software:

• Here you will find links to third party software.

Developer Tools:

• Here you will find links to software which is used by the developer team of the AnT project.

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Last modified: 2010-08-25    Contact: AnT