## Installing the Development Environment

### Prerequisites

· Perl 5.005 (ActivePerl) or above

· Python 1.5.2 or above

We recommend that you install Perl and Python on Microsoft Windows in directories whose paths do not contain blank characters.

· Visual C++ 6.0 or Visual C++ 7.0 (Microsoft Windows) or C/C++ Compiler gcc (UNIX/Linux)

· bison, flex (UNIX/Linux only)

### Procedure

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1. Download the zip archive (Microsoft Windows) or the tgz archive (UNIX/Linux) that contains the development environment. See Download and Installation Profile.

2. UNIX/Linux only:

Check whether your browser has changed the file extension from .tgz to .tar. If it has, then rename the archive .tgz again.

3. Unpack the archive in a directory that does not contain blank characters.

The DevTool directory is created.

4. Execute the installtools.pl script in the DevTool directory.

¡ The script searches in the %PATH% or $PATH environment variables for the Perl and Python installations.

¡ You are asked to specify your preferred text editor.

¡ The iprofile.tmp file is created.

### Result

The development environment was installed.

To change MaxDB programs and recreate them, install the source code and initialize the development environment.