OES Cross-Platform Libraries (XPlat) for Windows includes the core libraries for creating client applications on OES client platforms.
This release contains the libraries that are shipped with Novell Client 2 SP4 for Windows (or later) to support Novell Open Enterprise Server 2015 (OES 2015). It also contains new APIs and declarations that supports greater than 16 TB volume operations. For support queries, see Developer Support Forums.
NOTE: The NetWare and NLM is no longer supported.
Starting with the January 2016 NDK, the default install directory for this SDK is [extracted_folder]\OES_Cross-Platform_Libraries(XPLAT)_for_Windows_JAN-2016_OES_2015. If you have installed a previous version in the default location, remove it before installing this version.
Folder Name |
Description |
doc |
Contains the documents with API details. |
include |
Contains header files for creating new applications. |
lib |
Contains libraries that are required to create new applications. |
sample\Pre_NC2SP4 |
Contains samples for old (earlier than OES 2015) APIs. |
sample\NC2SP4 |
Contains samples for new APIs added as part of OES 2015. |
The NDK version of XPlat libraries are used to create applications in Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2008 R2.
NOTE: Ensure to install the Novell Client 2 SP4 for Windows or later, and Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013.
The following instructions explain how to build the sample code using Visual Studio 2013:
Go to [extracted_folder]\OES_Cross-Platform_Libraries(XPLAT)_for_Windows_JAN-2016_OES_2015\sample\NC2SP4 folder.
Open XPLAT-Windows-Sample.sln file in Visual Studio 2013.
The solution (.sln) file is internally linked to header files present in [extracted folder]\OES_Cross-Platform_Libraries(XPLAT)_for_Windows_JAN-2016_OES_2015\include folder, and also linked to library files present in [extracted_folder]\OES_Cross-Platform_Libraries(XPLAT)_for_Windows_JAN-2016_OES_2015\lib\win64\dll\WNTx64\msc folder.
Configure Visual Studio 2013 to build release version for x64 bit platforms.
Build the solution.
The output binaries are created in OES_Cross-Platform_Libraries(XPLAT)_for_Windows_JAN-2016_OES_2015\sample\NC2SP4\x64\Release folder.
The download contains PDF files in the [extracted_folder]\OES_Cross-Platform_Libraries(XPLAT)_for_Windows_JAN-2016_OES_2015\doc folder.
For online documentation, see OES Cross-Platform Libraries (XPlat) for Windows.
For sample code, see NDK Sample Code.
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