Standards

To be Common Desktop Environment-compliant, your application must follow the Motif 2.1, ANSI-C, and X11R6 standards. If you are developing your application in C++, use C++ version 2.0 or later. No further assumptions are made that you adhere to any standards, such as POSIX, when you write a Common Desktop Environment application. Applications that use the desktop application program interfaces (APIs) will be portable to other Common Desktop Environment platforms. However, using POSIX can enhance your software's portability.

The POSIX standard, IEEE Std 1003.1-1990, is entitled IEEE Standard for Information Technology--Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)--Part 1: System Application Program Interface (API) [C Language], ISBN 1-55937-061-0.

The Motif 1.2 standard, IEEE Std 1295, is entitled Standard for Information Technology--X Window System Graphical User Interface--Modular Toolkit Environment.

For information on ordering IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 and IEEE Std 1295, see "Related Books".