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Motif Availability

1. Start downloading the OpenMotif toolkit for the platform of your choice.

2. While OpenMotif is downloading register for an instant download of the Motif GUI Builder used by the top GUI developers in the world and try it for free for 30 days.

3. Download all the Motif programming reference books you'll ever need.

Step 1 - Download OpenMotif

OpenMotif at any version is only available under the terms of the Open Group license:

See the notes on Motif below

In order to ensure that you are prompted to save the file, you may have to right click on the file name and then select 'Save link as', or similar.

You should verify the MD5 signature on the files, which can be viewed by clicking on the 'MD5' link. A unix program called md5 or md5sum is included in many unix distributions. It is also available as part of GNU Textutils. Windows users can get binary md5 programs from here, here, or here.

Step 2 - Get a Motif GUI Builder

Download a copy of X-Designer to go with your OpenMotif toolkit. Try it for free for 30 days and find out why X-Designer is the #1 choice of GUI development professionals worldwide. Click here to register and download.

Step 3 - Download the Motif Books

O'Reilly publish a series of books in a set called 'The Definitive Guides to the X Window System' which include:

Volume 6A - the Motif Programming Manual

Volume 6B - the Motif Reference Manual.

Both these books are for Motif 2.1 and are available for download as PDF files from IST under the terms of the Open Publication license.

Notes on Motif

See The Motif overview page for more details.

Visit motifdeveloper.com, originally derived from MW3: Motif on the World Wide Web - a valuable source of X/Motif information.

Releases

This page contains details of the latest version (2.1.32) of Open Motif only. If you want a previous version please click here.

Note that OpenMotif-Compat 2.1.32 is OpenMotif 2.1.32 with its data structures padded to make it binary compatible with OpenMotif 2.2 and 2.3.

System Requirements for Linux

OpenMotif 2.1.32 was built on SuSE 9.2 (Linux 2.6.5) in both 32 and 64 bit modes. These versions are known to work on Redhat 9, Redhat Enterprise 4EL and Fedora Core 6 and will almost certainly be suitable for other versions of Linux incorporating version 2.6.5 or later of the kernel.

If you require OpenMotif 2.1.32 for a different version of Linux then please email support@ist.co.uk.

System Requirements for MAC OS X

The libraries for MAC OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and MAC OS X 10.5 (Leopard) are Universal builds. Note that the Leopard build also contains a 64 bit Intel section.

Apple transitioned their X11 platform from XFree86 to X.org at 10.5 (Leopard). X11 applications built on 10.4 (Tiger), or earlier, may need to be recompiled.

Please ensure that you select the correct version.

Package Content

There is one package for each platform, containing what is often referred to as runtime and development software.

Each package contains the Motif static and shared libraries, Motif window manager (mwm), UIL Compiler (uil), Motif support files, executable demo programs, and the header files needed to compile Motif programs from source code.

Installation Instructions

To install the packages, use the following commands as appropriate:

Linux:	rpm -ivh openmotif-2.1.32-2_IST.i586.rpm
	rpm -ivh openmotif-2.1.32-2_IST.x86_64.rpm
MAC OS X:	Double-click on the .dmg file

The packages will be installed into the bin, lib and include sub-directories of /usr/OpenMotif-2.1.32 and linked to /usr/OpenMotif.

The location can be overridden for Linux by using the --relocate option of rpm.

The 64-bit version has 64-bit binaries in its bin directory, 32-bit libraries in its lib directory and 64-bit libraries in its lib64 directory.

On Linux you will need to add the lib path to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. You should also run ldconfig to update the shared library cache.

On MAC OS X you will need to add the lib path to the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.

You may also have to use the --nodeps flag on the rpm command line.

WARNING - if you have OpenMotif 2.2 or 2.3 installed AND you have automatic updates for Linux enabled, you will need to ensure that OpenMotif is excluded from the list of allowable updates otherwise OpenMotif 2.1 will be deleted by the update process.

Source Code

The Source Code for OpenMotif is available under the terms of the Open Group license: