Viewing the HTML documentation

The product documentation is available in a fully searchable HTML-based information center.

The information center is viewable on the Web at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxpcomp/v111v131/index.jsp. You can also download a version of this information center containing the product documentation for IBM XL C/C++ for Linux, V11.1 and IBM XL Fortran for Linux, V13.1. This information center can be installed on any RHEL 5.5 or SLES 10 SP2 system. It can be accessed with a Web browser from the machine on which it is installed or from other computers on the same network.

Notes:
Follow these steps to download the help system:
  1. Go to the XL C/C++ compiler library page at http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/xlcpp/linux/library/. Download the information center package file XLHelp-v111-v131-LINUX-64bit.tar.Z from the download link on this page.
  2. Extract the package on your machine. Run the following command to extract the files to a new directory at ./xlhelp:
    zcat XLHelp-v111-v131-LINUX64.tar.Z | tar -xf -
  3. Enter the new directory.
    cd ./xlhelp
  4. You can review the licence information in the following two files:
    • LicenseAgreement.pdf
    • LicenseInformation.pdf
  5. Start the information center by running the following command:
    ./xlhelp &
  6. You can access the information center either locally or remotely. You need to have a Web browser installed on your machine to view the information center.
    • To access the information center locally, use this URL:
      http://localhost:1113/help/index.jsp
    • To access the information center remotely, use this URL:
      http://machine_name:1113/help/index.jsp

      where machine_name is the name of the computer on which the Eclipse server has been launched.

  7. To stop the information center, run this command:
    ./xlhelp_end
  8. To remove the information center, you must first stop the information center, and remove the extracted directory .xlhelp using the following command:
    rm -r ./xlhelp