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 .