Protection PLUS 5 SDK System Requirements

Protection PLUS 5 SDK is available in various editions, which use either our PLUSManaged or PLUSNative licensing libraries.

While this page lists some of the requirements, more details and important information can be found in the System Requirements manual page.

PLUSManaged Requirements

Runtime

PLUSManaged requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or higher to operate beginning with version 5.23.4.0, or Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher for versions older than 5.23.4.0. Consequently, the PLUSManaged library shares the system requirements with the version of the Microsoft .NET Framework with which it is used.

The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, versions of the Microsoft .NET Framework that target mobile platforms and devices, and versions of the Mono Framework that target mobile platforms and devices are not supported.

If your application uses the Mono framework, PLUSManaged will operate under Mono versions 2.8 or later, but at least Mono version 5.0.0 is required for SSL/TLS support.

Development

Visual Studio 2005 or later (with the latest service packs and updates available) is required when developing for the Microsoft .NET Framework. Xamarin Studio or MonoDevelop 2.8 or later is required if developing for the Mono framework.

When developing with Visual Studio 2010, Service Pack 1 is required. Using the latest service pack and updates available for the applicable version(s) of Visual Studio is strongly recommended.

PLUSManaged for .NET Standard Requirements

.NET: 5.0 or later
.NET Core: 2.0
.NET Framework: 4.6.1*
Mono: 5.4
Xamarin.iOS: 10.14
Xamarin.Mac: 3.8
Xamarin.Android: 8.0
Universal Windows Platform: 10.0.16299

See Microsoft's documentation for details.

* .NET 4.6.1, .NET 4.6.2, .NET 4.7 and .NET 4.7.1 all have partial .NET Standard 2.0 support, yet they are .NET Standard 2.0 compliant by adding additional runtime dependencies into your output folder to provide the missing functionality. NuGet generally will handle automatically adding the missing dependencies and changes needed in the application's app.config file. When targeting the .NET Framework, it is highly recommended to target .NET Framework 4.7.2 which provides full .NET Standard 2.0 compliance and does not require additional dependencies.

PLUSNative Requirements

An x86 compatible processor is required for 32 bit applications, or an x86_64 compatible processor is required for 64 bit applications.

Runtime

Windows

Windows XP or later with the latest service packs and updates.

macOS

Mountain Lion (10.8) or later with the latest updates for x86 and x64.
Big Sur (11.1) or later with the latest updates for Apple Silicon (Arm64).

Linux

Linux 3.10.0 kernel or later.
libc 2.17 or later.

Popular distributions supported include:

CentOS 7 or later.
Debian 8 or later.
Fedora 20 or later.
OpenSUSE 13.1 or later.
RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 or later.
Ubuntu 13.10 or later.

iOS

iOS 10.0 or later.

Android

Android 6.0 or newer supported on these ABIs:
- armabi-v7a
- arm64-v8a
- x86
- x64

ARMv7 for Linux

32-bit ARMv7
Linux 4.9.24 kernel or later.
libc 2.19 or later.

ARMv8 64-bit for Linux (aarch64)

64-bit ARMv8
Linux 5.4.0 kernel or later.
libc 2.31 or later.
Does not include a version of License Manager built for ARM64.

Protection PLUS 5 SDK Java Edition

Java 7 or later applications that run in 32 bit (x86) or 64 bit (x64) versions of Windows, macOS, or Linux.
Java 7 or later applications that run in Arm32 and Arm64 versions of Linux.
Java 7 or later applications that run in Apple Silicon (Arm64) versions of macOS.