MKS Toolkit is the leader in UNIX to Window scripting, connectivity,
and application migration. Enhancements found in the 9.3 release
include product activation, support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010,
updated operating system compatibility, and much more.
The Fixed Problems section discusses
the problems resolved in this release. The following sections
discuss the specific enhancements in much greater detail.
Simplified Installation and Product Activation
MKS Toolkit 9.3 now features Product Activation. Unlike previous
versions of MKS Toolkit which might have required all three of a
serial number, a complex access key, and a web-provided PIN to install,
Product Activation allows you to install MKS Toolkit 9.3 with only
a single Product Key similar to those keys used by other industry
standard programs.
In addition, Product Activation, combined with the new MKS Product
Activation Account, provides you with better control of your
MKS Toolkit licenses. Product Activation is controlled through
the Activation tab of the MKS Toolkit control panel applet.
Full Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Compatibility
MKS Toolkit 9.3 is now fully compatible with Microsoft Windows
7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta Support
MKS Toolkit 9.3 is compatible with the beta versions of
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express
(also known as Visual C++ 10.0 Express).
Details on using previous versions of the Visual Studio or Visual C++
Express IDE to compile, link, and debug applications can be found in
the "The Porting Process" and "Using the Visual C++ IDE" chapters of
the online version of the
MKS Toolkit UNIX to Windows Porting Guide.
Support for the final release versions of Visual Studio 2010 and
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express will be included in a patch
of MKS Toolkit 9.3.
Kerberos Authentication Support for Connectivity Suite
MKS Toolkit 9.3 now supports Kerberos authentication for the
secure shell and bsdtelnet/telnetd components
of the MKS Toolkit Connectivity Suite.
Details can be found in the new "Using Kerberos with MKS Toolkit"
appendix of the MKS Toolkit Connectivity Solutions Guide.
New POSIX pax Archive Format
The pax utility can now read and write archives using
the POSIX-defined pax archive format. This new format
allows the inclusion of additional character sets, longer user, group
and path names, and other additional information that cannot
normally be included in archives using other formats (for example,
cpio, cpiob, tar, and
USTAR)
To support this new format, the pax utility now
accepts the -xpax option to specify the use of this
new format and uses
-okeyword=value options
to specify extended header information.
Improved smtpmail Utility
A variety of improvements have been made to the smtpmail
utility:
Attachment Support.
The new option lets you include attachments
with your smtpmail mail messages.
Improved Address Specification.
The smtpmail utility now lets you add "carbon copy" (cc)
and "blind carbon copy" (bcc) addresses to your mail messages.
HTML Support.
MKS Toolkit 9.3 adds the ability for the smtpmail
utility to send HTML-formatted mail messages.
UTF8 Support in NuTCRACKER Platform
MKS Toolkit 9.3 adds support for UTF8 character sets and locales
to the NuTCRACKER Platform.
Updated openssh/openssl in NuTCRACKER Platform
The MKS Toolkit 9.3 version of the NuTCRACKER Platform now
features updated versions of the openssh and openssl libraries.
Updated X11 Runtime Libraries
The core X11 runtime libraries, provided with MKS Toolkit for
Enterprise Developers and MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-bit
Edition, have been updated to X11R7.4.
MKS Toolkit products do not have any particular hardware requirements.
Any machine that is sufficient to run the underlying operating system
is sufficient. All MKS Toolkit products run on Windows systems with
Intel 32-bit, Itanium (IA64), or Extended Architecture 64-bit (x64)
processors.
MKS Toolkit products have the following software requirements:
Platforms. You can install all MKS Toolkit products on:
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 R2
Windows Vista
Windows XP x64 Edition
Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 Edition
Windows Vista x64
Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and x64)
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems
Windows 7
Windows 7 x64
Windows Server 2008 R2 (32-bit and x64)
Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems
FAT File Systems.
It is not currently possible to adequately secure an MKS Toolkit
installation on a FAT file system. Therefore, on
Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 systems, we recommend installing
MKS Toolkit on an NTFS file system.
Compilers. The MKS Toolkit development
products work with various compilers and compilation environments.
The "Using Languages" chapter of the MKS Toolkit UNIX to Windows
Porting Guide describes how to use these MKS Toolkit products
with C, C++, and Fortran.
MKS Toolkit for Developers supports the following x86 compilers:
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, 7.0, 7.1, 8.0, or 9.0 (as a separate
product or as part of Microsoft Visual Studio or the Windows SDK)
Windows SDK
Visual C++ 2008 Express (also known as Visual C++ 9.0 Express)
Visual C++ 2005 Express (requires Microsoft Platform SDK or Windows SDK)
Microsoft C++ 2003 Toolkit (requires Microsoft Platform SDK or Windows SDK)
Intel C++ 8.x or 9.x (requires Microsoft Platform SDK or Windows SDK)
GCC 3.3.1, as provided in the MKS Toolkit Resource Kit
In addition, MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers and MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers also support the following compilation
environments:
both versions of the Standard Template Library
the Absoft Pro Fortran f90/f77 compiler, versions 5.0, 6.0,
7.0, 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0.
(http://www.absoft.com/)
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-bit Edition supports the
following additional 64-bit compilers:
Visual C++ from Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (Note: Team edition or Windows SDK is required for IA64 compiler)
Visual C++ from Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (Note: Team edition or Windows SDK is required for IA64 compiler)
Microsoft Platform SDK or Windows SDK Compiler
Intel C++ 8.x or 9.x (requires Microsoft Platform SDK or
Windows SDK)
Note: As of Windows Vista, the Microsoft Platform SDK was
renamed to the Windows SDK. References to Microsoft Platform SDK also
For those 64-bit compilers that require the Microsoft
Platform SDK or Windows SDK (that is, the Intel C++ 8.x or 9.x
compilers), the
version of the SDK required depends upon your system's processor.
For those processors with IA64 architecture,
you can use any version of the SDK from February 2003 or later, such
as the one available for download at
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/.
For Extended Architecture processors, you must use Build 1289 or later
of the SDK.
When installing MKS Toolkit, you are asked to specify the default
compiler to be used with the development utilities provided. Should
you decide to change your default compiler from your original choice,
you should do the following:
Close all MKS Toolkit shells and utilities.
Select Add or Remove Programs from the Windows control
panel applet.
Select MKS Toolkit from the list of programs and
click the Change button. The MKS Toolkit installer begins.
When the Program Maintenance dialog appears, check the
Modify option and click the Next > button.
As the installer continues with the process of modifying
your MKS Toolkit configuration, you are given the opportunity
to select a new default compiler as well as to change other installer
options.
Deployment.
When deploying NuTCRACKER Platform applications built
with Visual Studio 2005, Windows Installer 3.1 (or higher) must
be installed on each target machine to ensure that all
parts of the NuTCRACKER Platform are installed correctly.
Windows Task Scheduler. The MKS Toolkit
Scheduler, the command-line scheduling utilities
(at, batch, crontab,
and wts) require Internet
Explorer 4 (or later) and the Windows Task Scheduler.
On most Windows operating systems, these are already installed.
If you have MKS Toolkit 7.5 or earlier, or if you have a previous
version of MKS NuTCRACKER Professional, we recommend that you
uninstall
it, or install MKS Toolkit 9.3 on another machine.
When installing on a machine with SCO XVision Eclipse installed,
you should uninstall it before installing MKS Toolkit 9.3.
Note: If you have MKS Toolkit for Interoperability or MKS
Toolkit for Enterprise Developers installed on a Japanese machine
and uninstall XVision Eclipse, MKS X/Server is not installed with
a standard English license for these products. Contact
Customer Support to request the proper license.
When installing MKS Toolkit on a 64-bit machine, you must
first uninstall any previously installed MKS Toolkit releases
(version 8.6 and earlier).
When installing MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-bit
Edition on any platform, you must first uninstall any existing
MKS Toolkit installation.
When installing MKS Toolkit, you must install from an account
with local or domain administrator privileges. You do not need to
be an Administrator, but your login ID must be a member of the
local or domain Windows Administrators group before you can install.
All MKS Toolkit products share a common installer. If you are
installing from a CD, insert the MKS Toolkit distribution CD; the
installer should start automatically. If you are installing from
an electronic distribution, run the self-extracting installer.
To install MKS Toolkit, click the Install Toolkit button
and follow the instructions on the dialogs that appear.
Note: You should turn off all virus protection software
before installing MKS Toolkit. Such software can sometimes cause
the installation to be interrupted and rolled back. Once you have
installed MKS Toolkit, you can turn virus protection back on.
The MKS Toolkit CD also includes several items that are
not installed as part of the normal installation procedure. These
are:
The samples directory.
This directory contains a collection of sample source
code for use with MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers
and MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers.
Though they can be modified and compiled for 64-bit Windows systems,
these samples were designed and tested on 32-bit Windows platforms
using the MKS Toolkit porting and migration products.
These samples include binaries for cpp,
gawk, gmake, install,
and the groff suite of utilities.
The redist directory.
This directory contains a collection of utilities and drivers
that may be needed to get full use out of MKS products.
This includes the recent versions of the Jet Database driver,
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), Microsoft Management
Console (MMC) and Adobe® Acrobat® Reader.
Uninstalling MKS Toolkit
Uninstalling MKS Toolkit 8.x or 9.x
To uninstall MKS Toolkit, use the following procedure:
From the Control Panel run Add/Remove Programs.
Remove MKS Toolkit 8.x or MKS Toolkit 9.x, as appropriate.
Remove SCO XVision Eclipse (or MKS X/Server). (This is only
necessary if one of the two X Server packages was installed.
This X Server is normally only installed with MKS Toolkit for
Interoperability, MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers, and MKS
Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-bit Edition.)
You must reboot your system before reinstalling MKS Toolkit.
Uninstalling Previous Versions of MKS Toolkit
To uninstall a 7.x version of MKS Toolkit, run the TKUninstall
utility found in your system directory (you can find your system
directory with the windir -s command).
Alternatively, you can uninstall the components manually with
the following procedure:
From the Control Panel, run Add/Remove Programs.
Remove, in order, each of the following (if present):
You must reboot your system before reinstalling MKS Toolkit.
Activating MKS Toolkit
MKS Toolkit version 9.3 is copy protected and requires activation
against the MKS Activation Server (located at
http://www.mkssoftware.com)
to operate. The software is node fixed (that is, it is attached to a
single computer system) and user counted (the Named Authenticated
Users must be specified and are enforced). This activation takes place
after installation, so you need to plan your product rollout so you
do not find yourself with unactivated software on users' machines.
If your site has many different serial numbers and, in the past, have
used only one of them on many machines, you will either need to contact
MKS Sales to have these serial numbers bundled under one serial number
or use each of these serial numbers as they were purchased (that is,
install a single license on no more than one machine; install a five
user license installed on no more than five machines with one user
each, and so forth).
If you have used a single serial number to download the new version
of MKS Toolkit during the update process and rolled out to many
machines, you will need to specify all serial numbers that need
to be updated as each serial number has a notion of the version number
requested and will not activate unless it has been updated.
If you have some serial numbers under a valid PCS contract and
some that are not, and they have not been retired, you will be
unable to update any of your serial numbers until you bring all
licenses in use under a valid PCS, or retire unused licenses
permanently, or submit to MKS Personnel in writing, you will not
update said serial numbers to any later version, unless you purchase
an update license at a later date.
Further information about MKS Toolkit 9.3 activation and the information
which is sent to and stored on MKS computers can be found here:
http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/activation.
For questions related to sales issues, please e-mail:
tk_sales@mks.com.
For questions related to support issues, please email:
tk_support@mks.com.
We at MKS sincerely value and appreciate your business and want to
do everything we can to ensure a successful implementation of our
MKS products.
Known Issues
The following known issues exist in MKS Toolkit 9.3:
NuTCRACKER Platform Applications and MKS X/Server.
Currently, there are some issues with NuTCRACKER Platform
applications which use OpenGL to access MKS X/Server features
such as Direct Rendering and Overlay Planes on systems using an
NVIDIA video card. For details, see the MKS X/Server 8.5 Patch 1
release notes.
Short Path Names with Visual Studio 2008.
The Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 IDE sometimes crashes when
building a Win32 console application with the Additional
Library Directories value set to a short path (for example,
C:\PROGRA~1\MKSTOO~1\lib). We recommend always using
long path names (C:\Program Files\MKS Toolkit\lib in
this situation. Microsoft is aware of this issue and has it
registered as C++ case number SRX071206601300. A fix is expected
in Visual Studio 2008 Patch 1 from Microsoft, scheduled for
April or May 2008.
Installing MKS X/Server.
When installing MKS Toolkit for Interoperability or MKS Toolkit
for Enterprise Developers, you may receive a message asking you to
uninstall XVision and reboot before you install MKS X/Server. You
can install MKS X/Server from the CD autoplay screen. It cannot be
installed by performing a Modify or Repair operation
on MKS Toolkit.
MIT Kerberos for Windows 3.0.0.
When MIT Kerberos for Windows 3.0.0 is installed on a system,
it appears to break SSPI, causing credential passing errors. We
recommend uninstalling this software on systems running
MKS Toolkit and rebooting.
Security ID Warning.
When the TK_NTSECURITYINFO_OFF environment variable
is set, it turns off all security related features. This includes
the ability to look up user and group IDs. As a result, utilities
such as id, chown, and chgrp
that depend upon user and group IDs will not work properly when
this variable is set.
_NutConf().
MKS Toolkit 8.6 added large file support and as a result inadvertently
broke backward binary compatibility for applications linked against
previous import libraries. With 8.6p2 and 8.7 we added an
environment variable to supplement the _NuTConf() to revert
the behavior of the runtime to pre-8.6 form such that read beyond a 2G
boundary without large file support enabled will not result in an error.
set NUT_DISABLE_FULL_LFS_SEMANTICS=1 to do the equivalent of
_NutConf(_NC_SET_FULL_LFS_SEMANTICS, FALSE) without the need
to recompile or relink your application.
Path Name Issue.
If you install the Microsoft Platform SDK or Windows SDK
on a 64-bit machine, and
your PATH environment variable contains elements that
begin with C:\Program files (x86), the script for setting
up the 64-bit build environment included with that SDK does
not work. There are two possible solutions:
Modify the PATH environment variable in the
system environment to substitute the short path variant of the
folder name Program Files (x86). The short path variant
is normally C:\progra~2. You can use dir /x
from a command window to be sure.
Modify the file setenv.bat in the root directory of
the SDK tree. Find the section that looks like this:
REM ---------------------------------------------
REM Patch path to put Bin\WinNT\NT4 in path ahead
REM of NT5 tools that don't run on NT4
REM ---------------------------------------------
For /F "delims=;" %%i IN ('Cmd /c Ver') DO (
IF "%%i"=="Windows NT Version 4.0" (
Set Path=%MSSdk%\Bin\WinNT\NT4;%Path%
Goto Finish
)
)
Goto Finish
and remove or comment out the line that begins Set Path=.
The uil Compiler.
The uil compiler used with some Motif applications
can generate uid files that are compatible with either 32 or
64-bit platforms. A single uid file cannot be used for both situations.
This is consistent with the documented behavior of the uil
compiler. The uil compiler normally will try to figure out
whether to build the 32-bit or 64-bit version based on your build
environment. If the TARGET_CPU environment variable
is set to either "AMD64" or "IA64", the uil compiler
builds a 64-bit compatible uid file; otherwise,
it builds a 32-bit compatible uid file.
The TARGET_CPU environment variable is set as appropriate
for all 64-bit NuTCRACKER build environments launched
from the Start menu.
The uid file that is generated by the uil compiler
in this release is not guaranteed to be portable to other 64-bit
UNIX platforms.
Customer Support
When reporting a problem, you will need certain information
about your product, which you can find on the Support
Information tab of the MKS Toolkit Control Panel Applet.
Through the years, we have accumulated a lot of technical
details about the MKS Toolkit products and have put this
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