Intel® System Studio 2018 System Requirements

This page provides the information on the system requirements for the Intel® System Studio 2018 product.

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Intel® System Studio supports development for Android*, Embedded Linux*, Yocto Project* and Wind River Linux* deployment targets from Linux*,Windows* or macOS* host.

Note: Individual Intel® System Studio components may have a broader range of supported features/targets than the suite level support covers. See the system requirements of the individual components for detailed information.

Supported Host Operating Systems

Below is the list of distributions supported by most components.  Intel System Studio supports Intel® 64 Host architectures only.  

Linux* Host:

• Red Hat Enterprise* Linux* 6, 7
• Ubuntu* 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS
• Fedora* 24, 25, 26
• Wind River* Linux* 7, 8, 9
• openSUSE* Leap 42.2
• SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server* 12 SP1
• CentOS* 7.1

Windows* Host:

• Microsoft Windows* 7, 8.x, 10

macOS* Host:

• macOS*  10.12, 10.13

In most cases, Intel® System Studio will install and work on a standard Linux* OS distribution based on current Linux* kernel versions without problems, even if they are not listed below. You will, however, receive a warning during installation for Linux* OS distributions that are not listed.

Supported Target Operating Systems

Linux target:

• Red Hat Enterprise* Linux* 6 and 7
• CentOS* 7.1
• Yocto project* 1.7, 2.0, 2.2 based environment
• Ubuntu* 14.04, 16.04
• Wind River* Linux* 7, 8, 9 based environment
• SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server* 11, 12

Windows target:

• Microsoft Windows* 7,8.x,10 (PC & Embedded)

Android target :

• Android* M, N

Supported target hardware platforms

• Development platform based on the Intel® Atom™ processor Z5xx, N4xx, N5xx, D5xx, E6xx, N2xxx, D2xxx, E3xxx, Z2xxx, Z3xxx, C2xxx, or Intel® Atom™ processor CE4xxx, CE53xx and the Intel® Puma™ 6 Media Gateway
• Intel® Atom™ Processors X Series Cxxx,Exxx,Zxxx
• Development platform based on a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th generation Intel® Core™ processor
• Intel® Xeon® processors based on 2nd, 3rd 4th, 5th or 6th generation
• Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors series

Space Requirements by Component

Prerequisites by Component

Intel® System Studio 2018 might also require installation of webkitgtk for using Eclipse*:

• Linux* host -
  • RedHat/Fedora: dnf install webkitgtk
  • Ubuntu/Debian : apt-get install libwebkitgtk-1.0.0

Intel® C/C++ Compiler

• Linux* target - 
  • Linux Developer tools component installed, including gcc, g++ and related tools
    • gcc versions 4.3 - 6.3 supported
    • binutils versions 2.20-2.26 supported
  • Development for a 32-bit target on a 64-bit host may require optional library components (ia32-libs, lib32gcc1, lib32stdc++6, libc6-dev-i386, gcc-multilib, g++-multilib) to be installed from your Linux distribution.

Docker* based application workflow

• Using Intel® System Studio to target Ubuntu Desktop with the free "Community Edition" (CE) version of Docker* requires Docker version 1.13.0 (Jan 2017 release) or later. We recommend that you install the latest version of Docker on your development system to ensure expected functionality.

Intel® VTune™ Amplifier

• Linux* target 
  • Linux* Kernel version has to be 2.6.32 or higher for Intel® VTune™ Amplifier power and performance analysis.
  • Kernel Configuration

Intel® System Debugger

• Linux* host - 
  • Install fxload package for all types of target communication
    • Ubuntu*: sudo apt-get install fxload
    • Fedora*: sudo yum install fxload 
• Windows* host - 
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe) Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 runtime (pre-installed by default on Microsoft* Windows* 7)
    • Download Microsoft .NET Framework 4 web installer from Microsoft.com.
    • Run dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe 

Development environments supported

Eclipse* IDE

An Intel flavor of the Eclipse* IDE is available for Intel® System Studio 2018. Check out the What's new page for more details 

Microsoft Visual Studio* integration

To use the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment or command-line tools to build IA-32 or Intel® 64 architecture applications, one of:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017* Professional Edition (or higher edition) with 'Desktop development with C++' component installed
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2015* Professional Edition (or higher edition) with 'Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015' component installed 
• Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015* with 'Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015' component installed 
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2013* Professional Edition (or higher edition) with C++ component installed
• Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2013* with C++ component installed

To use command-line tools only to build IA-32 architecture applications, one of:

• Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2015 for Windows Desktop*
• Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2013 for Windows Desktop*

To use command-line tools only to build Intel® 64 architecture applications, one of:

• Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2015 for Windows Desktop*
• Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2013 for Windows Desktop*

Component system requirements