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Supported platforms; software needed to run Harvest

 

Anyone with a World Wide Web client (e.g., NCSA Mosaic) can access and use Harvest servers. World Wide Web clients are available for most platforms, including DOS, Windows, OS/2, Macintosh, and UNIX/X-Windows. Most of these clients will work over any high-speed modem (e.g., 9600 baud or better). The World Wide Web consortium maintains a list of WWW clients.

If you want to run a Harvest server, you will need a UNIX machine. Specifically, we support the following server platforms:

At present we are concentrating our efforts on supporting the above platforms. We may eventually support other operating systems, but have no immediate plans to do so. However, we have incorporated changes provided by various Harvest users into the Harvest source code for the following platforms, and other ports are under way (e.g., for FreeBSD). Again, we do not currently support these platforms, but we did integrate ports we received from Harvest users: AIX 3.2 using the AIX C compiler; HP-UX 09.03 using the HP ANSI C compiler A.09.69; Linux 1.1.59; and, IRIX 5.3.

If you port Harvest to a new system, please notify us via email at harvest-dvl@cs.colorado.edu.

In addition to the above platform requirements, you will need the following programs to run Harvest:

If you want to build Harvest from the source distribution (see Section 3.3), you will need the following systems programs:

The source for Perl, gcc, GNU gzip, flex, and bison are available at the GNU FTP server. The source for the Tcl/Tk, Tcl-dp, and XF software is available at the various Tcl/Tk archives. Information about various httpd software packages is available at the Sunsite FTP server.

       


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Darren Hardy
Mon Apr 3 15:22:37 MDT 1995