Source code road map

BOINC is distributed via CVS, tarballs compressed with gzip, and Windows zip files.

• If installing from CVS, check out the entire CVS tree.
• If installing on Windows, unzip boinc.zip or boinc.tar.gz, and unzip win_build.zip inside the BOINC directory.
• If installing on Mac OS X, unzip boinc.zip or boinc.tar.gz, and unstuff mac_build.sit inside the BOINC directory.

Unpacking the BOINC source code creates the following directories:

RSAEuro/

A public-domain RSA implementation.

api/

The BOINC API (parts of which are compiled into the core client).

apps/

Some test applications.

client/

The BOINC core client.

client/win/

Core client files particular to the Windows GUI version.

client/mac/

Core client files particular to the Mac GUI version.

db/

The database schema and interface functions.

doc/

HTML documentation files.

html_ops/

PHP files for the operational web interface.

html_user/

PHP files for the participant web interface.

lib/

Code that is shared by more than one component (core client, scheduling server, etc.).

sched/

The scheduling server, feeder, and file upload handler.

sched_fcgi/

Separate directory for compiling the server and file upload handler as Fast CGI programs.

test/

Test scripts.

tools/

Operational utility programs.

On UNIX systems, the BOINC software (both server and client) can be built by typing

  ./configure
  make

  make check