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Basic Developer Kit 2.5.0

This package contains the following modules:

bullet Basic GOCAD Developer Kit

Package dependencies:

bullet GOCAD Suite 2.5.0
bullet The GOCAD Suite 2.5.0 now requires Qt 3.3.8. Developers who were using the GOCAD Qt 3.3.6 Libraries should upgrade to GOCAD Qt 3.3.8 Libraries

Release documents:

bullet Release Notes 2.5.0
bullet GOCAD Suite 2.5.0 and License Server 11.3 Installation Guide


Packages updated on September 24, 2007:

Microsoft Windows
Windows XP, 2000 (32 bits) - i86 - Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Download (47803224 Bytes)
Windows XP (64 bits) - x64 - Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Download (47716864 Bytes)
Red Hat Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (32 bits) - i86 - GCC 3.2.3 Download (37734816 Bytes)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (64 bits) - x64 - GCC 3.2.3 Download (37748183 Bytes)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (32 bits) - i86 - GCC 3.4.3 Download (42787098 Bytes)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (64 bits) - x64 - GCC 3.4.3 Download (37748957 Bytes)
Sun Solaris
Sun Solaris 8 or later (64 bits) - SPARC - Sun Studio 9 C++ 5.6 Download (38332890 Bytes)

bullet November 22, 2007 - Release of upgrade-messages.pl, the message upgrade tool

To facilitate the internationalization of applications, Gocad-2.5.0 introduces a new style of error, warning and information messages that replaces the old C++like one. Upgrade-messages.pl is a perl script that automatically upgrades old-style messages to the new style.

To learn more about application internationalization, please read the section "Internationalization of Text" in the GOCAD Developer Documentation

To install the script, please follow these instructions:

bullet Download the script here: upgrade-messages.pl
bullet Save the script in [Developer-Kit-installation-directory]/PDGM/2.5.0/Gocad/devtools/upgrade-messages.pl, where [Developer-Kit-installation-directory] is the installation directory of your GOCAD Basic Developer Kit.

bullet October 15, 2007 - Important update of BIGRE, the source code migration tool

A startup problem has been discovered in script BIGRE (the source code migration tool from GOCAD 2.1 to GOCAD 2.5), that blocks the first migration phase. We provide below a new version of this script that fixes the problem and apologize for the inconvenience.

To install the new version of the script, please follow these instructions:

bullet Download the new version of the script here: BIGRE-2.5.pl
bullet Save the script in [Developer-Kit-installation-directory]/PDGM/2.5.0/Gocad/devtools/BIGRE-2.5.pl, where [Developer-Kit-installation-directory] is the installation directory of your GOCAD Basic Developer Kit.