Thank you for downloading this release of the EDCS Software Development Kit (EDCS SDK). The EDCS SDK is the development environment for creating applications that use the Environmental Data Coding Specification (EDCS). The purpose of the EDCS is to insure that environmental concepts are:
- unambiguously defined,
- flexibly denoted and encoded, and
- easily bound in exchange formats, and to programming languages.
This release has been tested on multiple platforms, such as Linux, Irix, Sun, and Windows 98/Me/NT/2000. For detailed information on platform and compiler versions supported see the Build Kit.
The EDCS 4.1 is a superset of the EDCS 4.0. There is no mapping needed from EDCS 4.0 to EDCS 4.1
For help, comments, and bug reports please send email to help@sedris.org. If you are an associate, please use se-coders@sedris.org.
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This version of the SDK is being made available in multiple distribution formats. In addition to source code, pre-compiled binaries for all supported platforms can be downloaded from the SEDRIS web site (www.sedris.org).
The following matrix table shows the contents of the different packages and the directories you will find in them (note that the links on the column headers take you to the directories, so they may not work depending on your distribution and, as in the case of a source distribution, on whether you have compiled the libraries and/or applications):
Package and Contents bin: Compiled binaries for applications
docs: Documentation, including Release Notes and Reference Manual
include: Header files for applications and libraries
lib: Compiled binaries for libraries
src: Source code and headers for libraries and applications
Complete Suite Source:
- Libraries
- Applications
- Documentation
X X Complete Suite Binary:
- Libraries and available extensions
- Applications
- Documentation
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The EDCS SDK is distributed as a GNU-zipped tar file for Unix systems and a Zip file in Win32 systems.
Note: If you have an earlier version of the SDK and you haven't changed its default installation directory, you may want to do it now because this version of the SDK may overwrite it.
To install, extract the contents of the compressed file:
- Unix
Use the "tar" and "gzip" commands to extract the contents of the SDK:
using the appropriate filename for "sdk_file.tar.gz".gunzip -c sdk_file.tar.gz | tar xf -If you have GNU tar installed, you can use the following command instead:
tar xzf sdk_file.tar.gz
- Win32
Use WinZip or other decompression utility to extract the contents of the downloaded file.
If you are installing the EDCS SDK under the SEDRIS SDK, you will need to extract the contents of the file into the "sedris/src/lib" directory of the SEDRIS SDK, so that the extraction process puts all the files in the "sedris/src/lib/edcs" directory.
See the Build Kit page for information on how to compile and link the software, and how to link your applications or libraries against this SDK.
Note that the file name for binary releases includes the OS/System architecture type as part of the name. After extracting the software, users should see a top-level "edcs" directory. Binary releases associated with different OS/architecture can be installed on a common "edcs" directory. This is to allow users who work on several platforms to install all the releases under a common "edcs" directory in a shared network drive. In that case, on each installation, the non-OS-specific files are replaced by the new release and the OS specific libraries and executables are stored under their respective sub-directories under the "lib" and "bin" directories discriminated by their platform/version/architecture combination.
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The SDK Documentation is divided into the following areas:
- Release Notes (this document)
- Describes the capabilities of this release, its contents, and supported platforms and compilers.
- Build Kit
- Details the build options and procedures for compiling and linking the software.
- EDCS Reference Manual
- Provides links to detailed documents for the EDCS and mappings from other encodings.
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This release includes a sample application that demonstrate the use of the EDCS SDK.
Applications:
- Sample EDCS Access
- An application that accesses the EDCS API to get some EDCS Classification Codes and EDCS Attribute Codes and displays their information.
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Questions, comments, and bug reports should be sent to help@sedris.org.
If you are an associate, please send email to se-coders@sedris.org.
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