ColorBox2 — Used Means

ColorBox2 is targeted on the Linux platform with the Apache web server running. It uses many features of this combination as well as many features of the GCC compiler. However the source code is fairly easy portable to any other standard platform.

The library source code uses heavily the concept of templates and typenames, with some bindings to STL. Generally the code should comply to ANSI C++.

For MySQL data access the default (C style) MySQL client library is needed for both compilation and deployment. The Just-In-Time compiler uses the make utility to build all dependecies of end programmer's web applications, GNU Make is preferred.

Here is a (perhaps incomplete) list of dependecies for compiling and using ColorBox2:

• Both compilation and deployment
  • Linux (or other unix-like kernel)
  • GNU Glibc (or compatible C run-time environment)
  • ANSI STL library
  • GNU GCC (3.3.x branch preferred)
  • MySQL 4.x (including C client library)
  • Apache 1.3.x
• Compilation only
  • GNU Binutils
  • GNU Automake
  • GNU Autoconf
  • GNU Make
• Deployment only
  • make utility (GNU Make preferred)