Overview

Download:

  wget http://boinc.berkeley.edu/source/boinc-VERSION.tar.gz
  tar xvzf boinc-VERSION.tar.gz
  cd boinc-VERSION

Configure:

  ./configure

Make:

  make

Software

Compiling the server is supported directly on:

Linux
Solaris 2.7+
FreeBSD

Other modern UNIX systems should be easy to port

Compiler:

g++ (2.95 or 3.0-3.3)

Libraries:

MySQL

Troubleshooting

MySQL

BOINC gets MySQL compiler and linker flags from a program called mysql_config which comes with your MySQL distribution. This sometimes references libraries that are not part of your base system installation, such as -lnsl or -lnss_files. You may need to install additional packages (often you can use something called "mysql-dev" or "mysql-devel") or fiddle with Makefiles.