User`s manual

Windows Installation
Chapter 2: Windows Installation
This chapter describes the software and hardware installation procedure for the Windows platform (WindowsXP and Vista).
Do NOT install the hardware card into your system at this time. This will follow the software
installation.
Host Hardware Requirements
The software development tools require an IBM or 100% compatible Pentium IV - class or higher machine for proper
operation. An Intel-brand processor CPU is strongly recommended, since AMD and other “clone” processors are not
guaranteed to be compatible with the Intel MMX and SIMD instruction-set extensions which the Armada and Malibu Host
libraries utilize extensively to improve processing performance within a number of its components. The host system must
have at least 128 Mbytes of memory (256MB recommended), 100 Mbytes available hard disk space, and a DVD-ROM
drive. Windows2000 or WindowsXP (referred to herein simply as Windows) is required to run the developers package
software, and are the target operating systems for which host software development is supported.
Software Installation
The development package installation program will guide you through the installation process.
Note: Before installing the host development libraries (VCL components or MFC classes), you must
have Microsoft MSVC Studio (version 9 or later) and/or Codegear RAD Studio C++ (version 11)
installed on your system, depending on which of these IDEs you plan to use for Host development. If
you are planning on using these environments, it is imperative that they are tested and known-
operational before proceeding with the library installation. If these items are not installed prior to
running the Innovative Integration install, the installation program will not permit installation of the
associated development libraries. However, drivers and DLLs may be installed to facilitate field
deployment.
You must have Administrator Privileges to install and run the software/hardware onto your system, refer to the Windows
documentation for details on how to get these privileges.
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