User guide

DC 900-1333Q 47

Chapter

Client Software Installation

This chapter describes how to install the DLI API software library and protocol loop-

back software on a client system. This particular client system is a computer on your

network that you will use to develop an application program to communicate with the

Freeway server and the protocols loaded on the ICP boards. This client system must

have the proper development environment (C compiler and linker). Once you develop

and create an executable image for this application, it can be moved and used on other

systems including systems without a compiler.

Note

This chapter contains examples loading client software on three

types of operating systems: UNIX, OpenVMS, and Microsoft Win-

dows. The procedure described in the UNIX example applies to

several UNIX-based operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, SGI,

HP-UX, and FreeBSD. Contact Protogate customer support if you

cannot find a makefile for the operating system you are using.

3.1 Freeway and Protocol Software CDROMs

These are the installation CDROM disks that came with your Freeway server. These are

the same CDROMs that we told you not to install on your Freeway server in Chapter 2.

That is because the software is pre-installed on the Freeway disk drive at the Protogate

factory. However, you will need the CDROMs in this chapter in order to load the soft-

ware on your client system.