Requirements

This section describes the supported platforms, compilers, and dependencies for Panopticon.

Supported Platforms

Panopticon is supported on the following platforms:

Microsoft Windows x86 64

  • Windows Server 2022

  • Windows Server 2019

  • Windows Server 2016

  • Windows Server 2012

  • Windows 11

  • Windows 10

Linux x86 64

The minimum supported versions of particular Linux distributions are:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7

  • CentOS 7

  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12

Supported Compilers

Platform Architecture Compiler Name Compiler Version
Microsoft Windows x86 64 cl Microsoft C/C++ Optimizing Compiler for x64 Version 17 (Visual Studio 2012) to Version 19 (Visual Studio 2019).
Linux x86 64 gcc/g++ 4.1.0 to 10

Software Dependencies

To run Panopticon on Windows requires the Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 redistributables to be installed. The redistributables are provided in the vcredist folder of the Panopticon SDK but you can download the latest installers from Microsoft to get the latest security, reliability, and performance improvements.

To run Panopticon on 64-bit Linux requires libstdc++.so.6 and libgcc_s.so.1 from GCC 5.4. For your convenience, these are provided in the redist folder of your Panopticon installation.

NOTE: The kvoop, servant, and WKOOP executables must be able to link to libstdc++.so.6 and libgcc_s.so.1.

  • If these are installed in a system folder, like /lib64, KeyView will find them automatically.
  • If you prefer you can add the path of the folder containing these libraries to the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Some components require specific third-party software:

  • On Linux platforms you must install the following dependencies, which are required by the embedded browser (WKOOP):

    RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 RHEL 8 SLES 15
    libatomic
    libX11
    libXtst
    libXScrnSaver
    libXcomposite
    atk
    at-spi2-core
    at-spi2-atk
    cups
    cairo
    pango
    alsa-lib-devel
    libatomic
    libX11
    libX11-xcb
    libXtst
    libXScrnSaver
    libXcomposite
    atk
    at-spi2-core
    at-spi2-atk
    cups
    cairo
    pango
    alsa-lib-devel
    libatomic1
    libX11-6
    libXtst6
    libXss1
    libXcomposite1
    at-spi2-core
    cups
    libcairo2
    libpci3

    For example, on CentOS 7:

    sudo yum install libatomic libX11 libXtst libXScrnSaver libXcomposite atk at-spi2-core at-spi2-atk cups cairo pango alsa-lib-devel
  • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) version 8 to 17 is required to use the Panopticon Java API.