Win32GKS - GKS for Windows

Technical aspects of Win32GKS

System requirements

• Microsoft Windows 2000 and all later versions of 32 bit Windows
• Intel or AMD processor - Pentium or above
• Memory requirements dependent on application
• Approximately 2 MB of disk space for libraries and example programs

Development environment

Win32GKS provides a full set of GKS output primitives

• Microsoft Fortran Powerstation V4.0 and above (including Digital and Compaq Visual Fortran) can be used to build console* or Windows GKS applications by linking to the GKS Fortran binding supplied as a DLL
• Microsoft Visual C++ V2.0 or later can be used to build console* or Windows GKS applications by linking to the GKS C binding supplied as a DLL
• Any Win32 Fortran compiler can be used provided it conforms to the same linkage and calling sequence rules as Microsoft Fortran. Contact OSS for other specific Fortran compilers
• Any Win32 C compiler can be used provided it conforms to the same linkage and calling sequence rules as Microsoft C/C++
• Any Win32 development environment that can call a dynamic link library. Note that the C binding DLL obeys the C calling standard while the Fortran binding DLL obeys the STDCALL calling standard

* Console applications emulate a character-mode device in a window. In this way, with the support provided by Win32GKS, GKS applications may be ported from other systems with very few changes

Demo software

Download the Win32GKS demo (271 kb in size)