Documentation
Ice Documentation (English)
Ice-3.3b.pdf
Ice-3.3b.pdf.gz
Ice-3.3b.pdf.zip
The complete Ice documentation, in PDF format. You can download the Acrobat PDF reader here.
Release Notes
Describes the improvements and fixes included in this release, and provides instructions for upgrading existing applications.
Windows Installers
Windows Installer for Visual Studio 2005
Everything needed to use Ice in C++, Java, .NET and Python on the following platforms:
- Windows XP (x86)
- Windows Server 2003 (x86 and x64)
- Windows Vista (x86 and x64)
Visual Studio 2005 is only required for C++ and .NET developers. Visual Studio 2005 Express is also supported for C++.
Use this installer if you want to build Ice for C++ or Ice for Java from sources. It includes header files, debug/release DLLs, and JAR files for Ice's third-party dependencies:
- Berkeley DB 4.6.21
- OpenSSL 0.9.8g
- Libbzip2 1.0.4
- Expat 2.0.1
Ice for Java users who do not want to install the full Ice distribution may also find this installer useful, as it includes the Java classes for Berkeley DB.
Windows Installer for Visual Studio 2008
Everything needed to use Ice in C++, Java and .NET on the following platforms:
- Windows XP (x86)
- Windows Server 2003 (x86 and x64)
- Windows Vista (x86 and x64)
Visual Studio 2008 is only required for C++ and .NET developers. Visual Studio 2008 Express is also supported for C++.
Use this installer if you want to build Ice for C++ or Ice for Java from sources. It includes header files, debug/release DLLs, and JAR files for Ice's third-party dependencies:
- Berkeley DB 4.6.21
- OpenSSL 0.9.8g
- Libbzip2 1.0.4
- Expat 2.0.1
Ice for Java users who do not want to install the full Ice distribution may also find this installer useful, as it includes the Java classes for Berkeley DB.
Windows Installer for Visual C++ 6.0
Everything needed to use Ice on Windows XP in C++, Ruby, and PHP with Visual C++ 6.0. This installer includes executables, debug and release DLLs, header files, import libraries, PDBs, sample programs, and third-party dependencies.
Note: The Ice extensions for Ruby and PHP are included in this installer for compatibility with the binary distributions available from ruby-lang.org and php.net.
Use this installer if you want to build Ice for C++ from sources. It includes header files and debug/release DLLs for Ice's third-party dependencies:
- Berkeley DB 4.6.21
- OpenSSL 0.9.8g
- Libbzip2 1.0.4
- Expat 2.0.1
- STLport 4.6.2
Linux RPMs
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 6 i386 RPMs
Ice-3.3b-rhel4-i386-rpm.tar.gz
The Ice run times and developer kits for all supported language mappings.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 6 x86_64 RPMs
Ice-3.3b-rhel4-x86_64-rpm.tar.gz
The Ice run times and developer kits for all supported language mappings.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 6 Yum Repository
You can also install Ice using yum or up2date on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 6.
Directly with yum
Download the repository description (zeroc-ice.repo) and install it in /etc/yum.repos.d. Once installed, you can view the available packages using the following command:
# yum list ice* db46*
Refer to the yum documentation for more information.
With up2date
Configure up2date to use the zeroc-ice yum repository, by adding
yum zeroc-ice http://www.zeroc.com/download/Ice/3.3/rhel4/$ARCH/
at the end of your /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file. Then import the ZeroC GPG release key with:# rpm --import http://www.zeroc.com/download/RPM-GPG-KEY-zeroc-release
and the ZeroC GPG beta key with:# rpm --import http://www.zeroc.com/download/RPM-GPG-KEY-zeroc-beta
You can view the packages available on the zeroc-ice channel with:# up2date --installall=zeroc-ice --dry-run
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 1 i386 RPMs
Ice-3.3b-rhel5-i386-rpm.tar.gz
The Ice run times and developer kits for all supported language mappings.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 1 x86_64 RPMs
Ice-3.3b-rhel5-x86_64-rpm.tar.gz
The Ice run times and developer kits for all supported language mappings.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 1 Yum Repository
You can also install Ice using yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 1 by downloading the repository description (zeroc-ice.repo) and installing it in /etc/yum.repos.d. Once installed, you can view the available packages using the following command:
# yum list ice* db46*
Refer to the yum documentation for more information.
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 i386 RPMs
Ice-3.3b-sles10-i586-rpm.tar.gz
The Ice run times and developer kits for all supported language mappings.
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 x86_64 RPMs
Ice-3.3b-sles10-x86_64-rpm.tar.gz
The Ice run times and developer kits for all supported language mappings.
Source RPM
An RPM containing the Ice source code for the binary RPMs above.
GPG Key
The public key used to sign the ZeroC third-party RPMs.
Fingerprint: DC66 ECCB 94F2 797F D4D4 ADA7 5E6D A833 0613 2997
The public key used to sign the ZeroC beta RPMs.
Fingerprint: 1295 A193 9ABA 70BC 47D6 D48E E343 3F1E 748B B043
Third-Party Dependencies
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 6, the PHP language mapping relies on third-party packages that are not available in the standard distribution. You only need to install these dependencies if you plan to use this language mapping:
- php-5.1.6: i386, x86_64
- php-devel-5.1.6: i386, x86_64
- php-pear-1.4.9
On SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1, the minimum requirement for Ice for .NET is Mono 1.2.2. In order to use UDP multi-cast features, you must install Mono 1.2.6 or later.
Binary Archives
Solaris 10 Archives
Ice-3.3b-bin-solaris-sparc.tar.gz (SPARC 32/64-bit)
Ice-3.3b-bin-solaris-x86.tar.gz (x86/x64)
Everything needed to use Ice in C++ and Java. This archive includes executables for Ice services and tools, run-time libraries and development kits.
HP-UX 11i (PA-RISC) Archive
Everything needed to use Ice in C++. This archive includes executables for Ice services and tools, run-time libraries and development kits.
MacOS X (Intel x86) Archive
Everything needed to use Ice in C++, Java, and Python. This archive includes executables for Ice services and tools, run-time libraries and development kits.
Sample Programs for Binary Archives
The Ice sample programs for binary archives. These sample programs are already included in the source code distributions and the Windows installers.
Source Distributions
The complete Ice source code for all language mappings. If you are interested in building Ice for a language other than C++, you must first compile Ice for C++ or, alternatively, download and install an appropriate binary distribution. This is necessary because the Slice compilers and scripting language extensions are written in C++.
For compatibility information, please refer to our list of supported platforms.
Source Code for Third-Party Software
Third-Party Source Code
ThirdParty-Sources-3.3b.tar.gz
ThirdParty-Sources-3.3b.zip
The source code for the third-party software that Ice depends on. (The GPL requires that we make these available. You do not need to download this archive unless you want to build these third-party packages from source code yourself.)
Berkeley DB Source RPM
Sources for the Berkeley DB 4.6.21 RPM included with the Linux binary RPMs.
MCPP Source RPM
Sources for the MCPP 2.6.4 RPM included with the Linux binary RPMs.