Vista Installation Requirements Vista Installation Requirements Vista is distributed as ANSI C source code. Most platforms now accept the longer filenames. Many C external names need more than the minimum 6 characters of significance that ANSI C guarantees.
Most platforms now allow the longer external names.
These are available on most platforms. Like the X Window System, Vista uses the imake facility to configure the build and installation procedures for a particular site and machine architecture. You will need the imake and makedepend tools distributed with the X Window System . Vista includes architecture-specific configuration files for SunOS 4.1 and 5.3, Silicon Graphics' IRIX 4.0, Linux, and Ultrix. The distribution is shipped in compressed form.