To build the BOINC client software: ./_autosetup ./configure --disable-server For more information, visit: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CompileClient http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BuildSystem When building application that should run on BOINC, you no longer need to care about building BOINC libraries for every platform. you can build and install BOINC libraries using [vcpkg](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/) dependency manager: git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git cd vcpkg ./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh ./vcpkg integrate install ./vcpkg install boinc The BOINC port in vcpkg is kept up to date by Microsoft team members and community contributors. If the version is out of date, please [create an issue or pull request](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg) on the vcpkg repository.