Platforms and Requirements

The Chipmunk tools require an ANSI c compiler (typically GCC) and X11 (R4, R5, or R6). Monochrome, 8-bit, 16-bit, and 24-bit per pixel color displays are supported; however, 16-bit and 24-bit color modes have only been tested on PC platforms (X11 under Linux and OS/2). An HTML browser (like Mosaic or Lynx or Netscape) is also necessary to access the Chipmunk documentation.

These are the currently supported platforms for the source distribution, with details of platform-specific requirements:

• AmigaOS. Requires ADE X or AmiWin X11.
• Apple Macintosh, OS X Lion (10.7) and earlier. Uses X11.
• Apple Macintosh, AU/X.
• Apple Macintosh, MachTen
• DEC MIPS-based DECstations.
• DEC Alpha, Linux.
• DEC Alpha, OSF 4.0
• HP Series 300/400, HPUX.
• HP Series 700/800 HPUX. The HP-supplied cc, with extra-cost ANSI option, will also compile Chipmunk.
• IBM PC and Compatibles, Linux/x86
• IBM PC and Compatibles, FreeBSD.
• IBM PC and Compatibles, OS/2. Press here for details.
• IBM RS/6000. The IBM xlc compiler is known to compile Chipmunk; gcc has not been tested.
• SGI, Irix 5.2 and 5.3, gcc and cc supported.
• Sun Solaris, on SPARC and x86

Binary distributions have been built by third-parties for the following architectures. Contact the authors for additional information.

• IBM PC-Compatibles, MS-DOS/Win95.

  Three binary versions of analog are current available.

  Martin Johnson, of Massey University Albany (Auckland, New Zealand) has recently completed an analog/log/loged port that runs under both Win95 and DOS. It uses djgpp and grx20. A binary version of this port is available for FTP download and HTTP download. Contact Martin Johnson directly at M.J.Johnson@massey.ac.nz for more information.

  Luigi Rizzo's group at the Universita' di Pisa, Italy, has created an analog port that works under MS-DOS only. Compiled with djgpp, it uses xlibemu and fvwm to provide an interface similar to a virtual window manager under X with Motif-like widgets. See this web page for a download link.

  This webpage, written in German, describes a Windows port that is known to work well under Windows 2000. Thanks to Michael Miller for passing this along.

• Amiga. Marco Gigante (marco.gigante@studenti.ing.unipi.it) has created a binary distribution for the Amiga, which uses the ADE X or AmiWin X server. These binaries are available on the Aminet server, for several hardware configurations. Binary filesets ChipMunk*.lha, log*.lha, view*.lha, until*.lha, wol*.lha, contain the distributions for Chipmunk, Log, View, Until, and Wol respectively.

Absent from this list are the following popular platforms.

• IBM PC-Compatibles, Windows NT No ports are in progress, to my knowledge.
• IBM PC-Compatibles, NextStep. No ports are in progress, to my knowledge.
• Apple Macintosh, MacOS 9. No ports are in progress, to my knowledge. However, MachTen does run as a process on top of MacOS 9. Note Mac OS X is supported, and is a build platform.

Feel free to contact me if you are interested in starting or helping a porting project. I'd be happy to offer advice and assistance, and to integrate your completed port into the next distribution.

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