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Building BOINC applications on Linux
If you build an application on a recent Linux distribution, it won't run on older Linux distributions because of library incompatibilities. The only solution we've discovered is to build applications on a host with an old Linux and an old GCC. Setting up such a host, however, is a giant pain.
Our recommended approach is not to build directly on a Linux host, but rather:
- Download the Compatibility virtual machine module. This is a Debian Linux system with the appropriate (old) version of GCC.
- Run this system under Virtual PC.
- Install the stable server code on the virtual host.
- Build the BOINC libraries by going to the 'boinc' directory and typing:
_autosetup ./configure --disable-client --disable-server LDFLAGS=-static-libgcc make
For x86-64 builds, it's possible to take SSE2 for granted, as long as GCC is version 4.0+, then type instead:_autosetup ./configure --disable-client --disable-server LDFLAGS=-static-libgcc CFLAGS=-ftree-vectorize CXXFLAGS=-ftree-vectorize FFLAGS=-ftree-vectorize make
Do not 'make install'.
- Go to the boinc/samples/example_app directory and type:
ln -s `g++ -print-file-name=libstdc++.a` make
Other UNIX systems
GLUT notes
Freeglut 2.2, freeglut 2.4 and OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) libraries are supported.
X11 notes
To get the X11 support, select the relevant options when you're installing Linux, or (Redhat) go to System Settings/Add? Software.