It may not be necessary to build the core client; you can get executables for many platforms at http://boinc.berkeley.edu.

See the Software Prerequisites.

Unix, Mac OS/X

If you have MySQL installed, you can just do:

   cd boinc
   configure
   make

This will build boinc/client/boinc_VERSION_PLATFORM.

If you don't have MySQL installed, that configure step will fail. You can use the following trick (thanks to Eric Myers for this):

The idea is to trick the configure script into running a fake mysql_config script. An easy way to do that is:

  $  export MYSQL_CONFIG=true

or the setenv equivalent for tcsh. This runs /bin/true or similar to configure mysql, but ./configure does not fail.

Of course the server build fails when you say `make` when it tries to build anything requiring mysql, but if you say `make -k` it will still build the client and apps, lib and api. You can also cd to client or apps and say `make` there and that will work (once lib and api are built).

Windows

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