Software Development

This topic is part of the UnixWare 7 documentation set.

The titles included in the Software Development documentation are listed below, in a suggested browsing order for developers new to UnixWare 7:

• Porting, integration, and compatibility

  How to run SCO OpenServer and UnixWare applications on UnixWare 7; as well as how to port applications and their source code to the UnixWare 7 Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Also describes the APIs appropriate for using the UnixWare/OpenServer Development Kit to develop applications that run on any SCO OpenServer and UnixWare 7 system.

• Programming in standard C and C++

  Discusses the UnixWare system programming environment and utilities and provides details of the C and C++ languages, file formats, link editor, libraries, and tools.

• Debugging and analyzing C and C++ programs

  Describes tools for identifying problems in your programs and improving program performance.

• Software development tools

  Describes the UnixWare 7 tools for developing and packaging application software.

• Programming with system calls and libraries

  Describes the basic operating system services provided by the UnixWare 7 kernel.

• Programming with the pre-standard C++ libraries

  Describes the C++ class libraries provided with the C++ compiler.

• Using network programming interfaces

  Covers networking APIs, such as XTI/TLI, Sockets, RPC, NIS, network selection, name-to-address mapping, the connection server, writing a port monitor, and REXEC client support routines.

• Character user interface programming

  Tells you how to use the Form and Menu Language Interpreter (FMLI) and the Extended Terminal Interface (ETI) routines to write menu-based and forms-based character user interfaces for your applications.

• Developing Visual Tcl applications

  Contains information on using the SCO Visual Tcl scripting language to create Motif-based graphical user interfaces for your applications. Using this scripting language allows you to construct sophisticated graphical applications without the complexity of directly using, for example, Motif or curses.

• Developing SCOadmin applications

  How to create system management applications (known as managers) using the SCOadmin system administration framework and development environment.

• User interface style conventions

  Provides guidelines for creating graphical and character-based application interfaces that are consistent with the interface style used by existing SCOadmin managers.

• Message store programming

  Describes the message store API for Mail and Messaging.

• Desktop Management Interface programming

  Describes how to create and distribute the Desktop Management Interface DMI, how to integrate DMI Service Providers with a product and how to integrate DMI-enabled management applications into a system.

• Programming interfaces for EELS

  Describes the two programming interfaces provided for access to EELS. The first interface is the propritory interface provided by EELS and the second is the XDAS conformant interface (conforming to the specifications laid down by the ``Open Group'').

• Development Kit Features

  Describes the new features in the UDK.

• Software Development manual pages

  Lists the reference manual page sections relevant to software development.

Also see:

• New features

  Describes the new features in the UnixWare 7 runtime system.