Installing and configuring DaCS

The DaCS library should be installed as a component of the Cell BE Software Development Kit. Once it is installed no further configuration is necessary.

Installation

Several packages are available that provide the means to develop, deploy and debug DaCS applications on your Cell BE system. The following table shows the package names with a short description:

Table 1.
Package Description
dacs-3.0.#-#.ppc64.rpm DaCS Runtime - Contains the optimized PPU shared library.
dacs-3.0.#-#.src.rpm DaCS Source - Source code for the DaCS libraries.
dacs-devel-3.0.#-#.ppc64.rpm DaCS Development - Contains the header files, optimized static PPU and SPU libraries, and debug libraries (PPU and SPU, static and shared).
dacs-cross-devel-3.0.#-#.noarch.rpm DaCS Cross Development - Contains the header files and libraries needed for cross-architecture development.
dacs-trace-3.0.#-#.ppc64.rpm DaCS Trace Enabled Runtime - Contains the trace enabled PPU shared library.
dacs-trace-devel-3.0.#-#.ppc64.rpm DaCS Trace Enabled Development - Contains the header files and trace-enabled PPU and SPU static libraries.
dacsman-3.#-#.noarch.rpm DaCS man pages.

See the SDK 3.0 Installation Guide for detailed installation and configuration information.