Software prerequisites (Unix/Linux)

The various parts of BOINC have dependencies on other software; most or all of these may already be present on your system. You'll need to download and install the ones you don't have. The list depends on the system you're on, and the parts of BOINC that you need.

If you are creating a BOINC project, you do not need to build the Core client or BOINC Manager.

	Server	Core client	BOINC Manager	Applications	Graphic apps
​Subversion (SVN) is needed to obtain the BOINC source code	X	X	X	X	X
​GNU tools: make 3.79+, m4 1.4+, libtool 1.5+, autoconf 2.58+, automake 1.8+, GCC 3.0.4+	X	X	X	X	X
​pkg-config 0.15+	X	X	X	X	X
Python 2.2+ with ​MySQLdb module 0.9.2+ (see installation instructions) and xml module	X
MySQL 4.0.9 or higher (with mysql-dev(el), and mysql-client)	X
sqlite 3.1 or higher (packages sqlite-dev(el) and sqlite)			X
Apache with mod_ssl and PHP5+	X
​PHP5 with ​cli support and the ​GD and MySQL modules (packages php5-cli and php5-gd)	X
​OpenSSL version 0.9.8+	X	X
​libcurl version 7.17.1+		X
​wxWidgets 2.8.3 (Configure with the --with-gtk --disable-shared options); BOINC needs a static library. If you have an older wxWidgets installed, uninstall it (make uninstall), then install 2.8. Make sure you have the 'development' version installed.			X
Graphics libraries: GL, GLU, GLUT (or freeglut). You'll need a static (.a) version of GLUT or freeglut (some Linux distributions come with only a dynamic version). Use the 'development' version of GLUT or freeglut.					X
jpeglib, X11 libraries and include files			X		X

libstdc++.a (needed for portable executables; on Fedora, the yum package is libstdc++-static-4.5.1-4.fc14.i686)

X

X

Example: to build the server software on FC14, I had to yum in the following modules:

• subversion-1.6.13-1.fc14.i686 (for svn)
• libtool-2.2.10-3.fc14.i686 (for libtoolize)
• gcc-c++-4.5.1-4.fc14.i686 (for g++)
• libstdc++-static-4.5.1-4.fc14.i686 (for libstdc++.a, needed by sample apps)
• MySQL-python-1.2.3-0.5.c1.fc14.i686 (for MySQLdb)
• php-mysql
• php-gd