Documentation
Ice Documentation
The complete Ice documentation, in PDF format.
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 SP1
Everything needed to use Ice in C++, Java, .NET and Python. This installer includes executables, debug and release DLLs, header files, import libraries, PDBs, Java classes, sample programs, and third-party dependencies.
Security Notice: The IceSSL for .NET assembly included in this installer contains a critical security vulnerability. You should replace it with the patched assembly available in our security advisory.
| Requirements | |
|---|---|
| C++ | Visual Studio 2005 SP1 or Visual Studio 2005 Express SP1 |
| .NET | Visual Studio 2005 SP1 |
| Java | Java5 or Java6 |
| Python | Python 2.5.2 |
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 1.0.5
- Expat 2.0.1
- mcpp 2.7.2
Windows Installer for Visual Studio 2008
Everything needed to use Ice in C++, Java, .NET and Python. This installer includes executables, debug and release DLLs, header files, import libraries, PDBs, Java classes, sample programs, and third-party dependencies.
Security Notice: The IceSSL for .NET assembly included in this installer contains a critical security vulnerability. You should replace it with the patched assembly available in our security advisory.
| Requirements | |
|---|---|
| C++ | Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2008 Express |
| .NET | Visual Studio 2008 |
| Java | Java5 or Java6 |
| Python | Python 2.6.1 |
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 1.0.5
- Expat 2.0.1
- mcpp 2.7.2
Windows Installer for Visual C++ 6.0
Everything needed to use Ice in C++, Ruby and PHP. 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.
| Requirements | |
|---|---|
| C++ | Visual C++ 6.0 |
| Ruby | Ruby 1.8.6 |
| PHP | PHP 5.2.6 |
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 1.0.5
- Expat 2.0.1
- STLport 4.6.2
- mcpp 2.7.2
Windows Installer for CodeGear C++Builder 2007
Everything needed to use Ice for C++ with CodeGear C++Builder 2007 (BCC 2007). This installer includes executables, debug and release DLLs, header files, import libraries, sample programs, and third-party dependencies.
Ice-3.3.1-ThirdParty-BCC2007.msi
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 1.0.5
- Expat 2.0.1
- mcpp 2.7.2
Windows Installer for CodeGear C++Builder 2009
Everything needed to use Ice for C++ with CodeGear C++Builder 2009 (BCC 2009). This installer includes executables, debug and release DLLs, header files, import libraries, sample programs, and third-party dependencies.
Ice-3.3.1-ThirdParty-BCC2009.msi
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 1.0.5
- Expat 2.0.1
- mcpp 2.7.2
Linux RPMs
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 i386 RPMs
Ice-3.3.1-rhel4-i386-rpm.tar.gz
The Ice run times and developer kits for all supported language mappings.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 x86_64 RPMs
Ice-3.3.1-rhel4-x86_64-rpm.tar.gz
The Ice run times and developer kits for all supported language mappings.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 Yum Repository
You can also install Ice using yum or up2date on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6.
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* mcpp-devel
If you already have an RPM installation of Ice, you can upgrade to the current release with this command:# yum update ice db46
Refer to the yum documentation for more information. Note that mcpp-devel is only required when building Ice from source.
With up2date
Configure up2date to use the zeroc-ice yum repository, by adding
yum zeroc-ice https://download.zeroc.com/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 https://download.zeroc.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-zeroc-release
You can view the packages available on the zeroc-ice channel with:# up2date --installall=zeroc-ice --dry-run
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 i386 RPMs
Ice-3.3.1-rhel5-i386-rpm.tar.gz
The Ice run times and developer kits for all supported language mappings.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 x86_64 RPMs
Ice-3.3.1-rhel5-x86_64-rpm.tar.gz
The Ice run times and developer kits for all supported language mappings.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 Yum Repository
You can also install Ice using yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 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* mcpp-devel
If you already have an RPM installation of Ice, you can upgrade to the current release with this command:
# yum update ice db46
Refer to the yum documentation for more information. Note that mcpp-devel is only required when building Ice from source.
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 i386 RPMs
Ice-3.3.1-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-3.3.1-sles10-x86_64-rpm.tar.gz
The Ice run times and developer kits for all supported language mappings.
GPG Key
The public key used to sign the ZeroC RPMs.
Fingerprint: DC66 ECCB 94F2 797F D4D4 ADA7 5E6D A833 0613 2997
Third-Party Dependencies
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6, 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
- php-devel-5.1.6
- php-pear-1.4.9
On SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1, the minimum requirement for Ice for .NET is Mono 1.2.6.
Binary Archives
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.
Solaris 10 Archives
Ice-3.3.1-bin-solaris-sparc.tar.gz
(SPARC 32/64-bit)
Ice-3.3.1-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.
Sample Programs
The Ice sample programs for use with RPM and binary archive installations. These sample programs are already included in the source code distributions and the Windows installers.
Source Distributions
Ice-3.3.1.tar.gz
Ice-3.3.1.zip
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 RPM
A source RPM that allows you to build the binary RPMs for Ice. For build instructions, please refer to Ice-3.3.1-RPM_README.
Third-Party Source Code
ThirdParty-Sources-3.3.1.tar.gz
(Linux/Unix/MacOS X)
ThirdParty-Sources-3.3.1.zip
(Windows)
The source code for the third-party software that Ice depends on, including patches and build instructions. (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
Source code for the MCPP 2.7.2 RPM included with the Linux binary RPMs.