Graphical interface standards and libraries

If your UNIX® application has a graphical interface, it must be able to run in an X Window System environment.










The interface should be Motif-compliant, as defined by the OSF/Motif Style Guide (Revision 1.1).

It is possible to substantially reduce memory usage by using the X dynamically linked libraries. To take advantage of these performance improvements, use the -b elf option when you link your application to the libraries listed in Table 11-1. Refer to the Release Notes for further information about X11R5 and Motif 1.2 performance improvements.



Refer to the next section ``Backward compatibility'' for information about running new binaries on previous or later versions of SCO systems.

Table 11-1 Libraries to link with

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 Library   Contains:
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 Xt        Xt intrinsics
 Xm        Motif routines
 X11       X Window (Version 11) routines
 Xmu       X miscellaneous utilities
 malloc    faster version of memory allocation routines
 socket    socket interface routines