Building BOINC on Unix

The C++ part of BOINC consists of several components, divided into directories as follows:

client/

the BOINC client

cliengui/

the BOINC Manager (GUI for the client)

sched/, tools/

the BOINC server

api/

API for BOINC applications

lib/

utility functions, used by all the above.

To build these components on Unix, first install the software prerequisites and get the BOINC source code. Then, in the source code directory, type

./_autosetup
./configure [see options below]
make

If you have updated the tools used by the build system (make, autotools, gcc, ...) since your last build then you have to force a rebuild of the files created by _autosetup using

./_autosetup -f

If you're creating a project, you need the server and API (you don't need the client software; participants can get that from the BOINC web site). Use

./configure --disable-client --disable-manager

If you're porting the BOINC client to a new platform, use

./configure --disable-server

If you're developing or porting a BOINC application, you need only the API:

./configure --disable-server --disable-client --disable-manager

Configuration

Usage:

./configure [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...

You can use environment variables to override the choices made by configure or to help it to find libraries and programs with nonstandard names/locations. To assign environment variables (e.g., CC, CFLAGS...), specify them as VAR=VALUE. Example: to compile BOINC with strict compiler warnings, use

./configure CXXFLAGS="-Wall -W -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -fno-common "

Defaults for the options are specified in brackets.

Configuration

-h, --help

display configuration options and exit

-h, --help

display configuration options and exit

--with-boinc-platform=NAME

Override the BOINC platform name determined by autoconf. i.e. Use NAME as platform to compile into the client. Only necessary if configure does not recognize your platform correctly by default. You can check the platform after the configure step by looking at the value of the HOSTTYPE variable in config.h

--with-boinc-alt-platform=NAME

Use this option to build an client that supports an alternate platform name. For example, on a x86_64 linux system that supports both 64 bit and 32 bit executables, you might specify --with-boinc-platform=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and --with-boinc-alt-platform=i686-pc-linux-gnu.

Installation directories

--prefix=PREFIX

install architecture-independent files in PREFIX [/usr/local] By default, make install will install all the files in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib etc. You can specify an installation prefix other than /usr/local using --prefix, for instance --prefix=. For better control, use the options below.

Optional Features

--disable-FEATURE

do not include FEATURE (same as --enable-FEATURE=no)

--enable-FEATURE[=ARG]

include FEATURE [ARG=yes]

--enable-debug

enable tracing and debugging flags for all components (alternatively, include -g in CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS)

--disable-server

disable building the server component

--disable-manager

disable building the manager component (Disabled automatically if configure can't find wxWidgets)

--disable-client

disable building the client component. Default: --enable-server --enable-client --enable-manager: builds server, client and manager.

--enable-shared[=PKGS]

build shared libraries [default=yes]

--enable-static[=PKGS]

build static libraries [default=yes]

--disable-static-linkage

disable static linking of certain libraries

--enable-client-release

Try building a portable 'release-candidate' (currently implemented for Linux and Solaris only): this links libstd++ statically. You will probably need gcc-3.0 for this to produce a portable client-binary. It is therefore recommended to use CC=gcc-3.0 and CXX=g++-3.0 for this. (Default = no)

Optional Packages

--with-PACKAGE[=ARG]

use PACKAGE [ARG=yes]

--without-PACKAGE

do not use PACKAGE (same as --with-PACKAGE=no)

--with-x

use the X Window System

--with-apple-opengl-framework

use Apple OpenGL framework (Mac OS X only)

--with-wxdir=PATH

Use installed version of wxWidgets in PATH

--with-wx-config=CONFIG

wx-config script to use (optional)

Environment variables

CC

C compiler command

CFLAGS

C compiler flags

LDFLAGS

linker flags, e.g. -L<lib dir> if you have libraries in a nonstandard directory <lib dir>

CPPFLAGS

C/C++ preprocessor flags, e.g. -I<include dir> if you have headers in a nonstandard directory <include dir>

CXX

C++ compiler command

CXXFLAGS

C++ compiler flags.

CPP

C preprocessor

CXXCPP

C++ preprocessor

F77

Fortran 77 compiler command

FFLAGS

Fortran 77 compiler flags

MYSQL_CONFIG

mysql_config program

Adding new directories

The top-level Makefile.am contains the SUBDIRS= line which sets up directory recursion, and the rules for creating source distributions. Each subdirectory's Makefile.am contains the rules for making the binaries and libraries in that directory and any extra files to distribute. If you create a new directory with another Makefile.am, you should

• make sure the directory is referenced by a SUBDIRS= line from its parent Makefile.am
• add it to the AC_CONFIG_FILES directive in configure.ac.

Client version number

To set the BOINC client version:

set-version 5.12.47

in the BOINC top-level source directory. This updates the AC_INIT line in configure.ac and regenerates files that use the version numbers (config.h, py/version.py, test/version.inc, client/win/win_config.h, Makefiles)