BOINC depends on various software to build, test, and run.

Operating systems

The server components run on flavors of Unix. We develop on Solaris 2.6-2.9 and Debian Linux stable and unstable, so those currently work out-of-the-box. Other Unix-like systems should work without too much configuration.

Unix software

Required for compiling:

GNU C++ 2.95 or 3.0-3.3; other C++ compilers can be ported
Other standard development tools assumed: make, gzip, etc.

Required to run automated tests, create a project and other various tools:

Python 2.2+
- Python module MySQLdb 0.9.2 (0.9.1 currently won't work; see installation instructions)
- Python module xml (part of most distributions)

Required on the database server:

MySQL server 3.25+ or 4.0+: other SQL server can be ported.

Required on the master/scheduler server(s):

Apache or other webserver
PHP 4.0
MySQL client

Optional, required only if you change */Makefile.am:

automake 1.7+
autoconf 2.5+

On Debian Linux you can install all of the above software using

apt-get install g++ python python-mysqldb python-xml mysql-server mysql-client apache php automake autoconf

Windows client software

Required for compiling:

Microsoft Visual C 6.0

Required for creating install packages:

InstallShield 5.5

Macintosh client software

Development Level PPC Macintosh running OS X 10.1 or later.
July 2002 Mac OS X Developer Tools.
Installer Vise Lite 3.6 SDK(?)