Basic Development Tools, Libraries, and Utilities

The IRIX Development Foundation and Libraries Software includes all of the libraries and utilities a developer needs to do basic software development on IRIX.

The Foundation for Software Development

The IRIX Development Foundation (IDF) contains libraries, header files, a linker, assembler and other common tools necessary for hosting software development. It does not contain a C compiler. While the basic functionality required for the use of third-party compilers will be bundled into this software, SGI will not support or guarantee the functionality of third-party compilers.

IDF Features:

• Standard tools such as the linker and loader, headers, parallel make, and others
• MIPSpro compiler components (not a full compiler)
• Language-specific headers, libraries, and documentation
• SpeedShop performance tools
• ProDev WorkShop evaluation copy

The IRIX Development Libraries (IDL) contain additional libraries and documentation useful for creating graphics, multimedia and user-interface components of your program. Scientific and math libraries are included as well as OpenGL and the popular ViewKit user interface library.

IDL Features:

• Digital Media Library, including audio, MIDI, video, compression, audio file, movie, DAT and CD libraries
• Device driver development Programmer's Guide and man pages
• Image Format Library
• Software Packager Libraries and Tools
• FlexLM licensing management tools
• X11 and Motif libraries and documentation
• WebViewer classes
• CompLib science and math libraries
• ViewKit for graphical user interfaces