Software prerequisites (Unix/Linux)

The various parts of BOINC have dependencies on other software. You'll need to install the ones you don't have, and possibly update some of the others. The list depends on which parts of BOINC you need.

If you are creating a BOINC project, you do not need to build the client or Manager.


	Server	Client	Manager	Applications	Graphic apps
git is needed to obtain the BOINC source code	X	X	X	X	X
GNU tools: make 3.79+, m4 1.4+, libtool 1.5+, autoconf 2.58+, automake 1.8+, GCC 3.0.4+	X	X	X	X	X
pkg-config 0.15+	X	X	X	X	X
Python 2.2+ with MySQLdb module 0.9.2+ (see installation instructions) and xml module	X
MySQL 4.0.9 or higher (with mysql-dev(el), and mysql-client)	X
sqlite 3.1 or higher (packages sqlite-dev(el) and sqlite)			X
libnotify-dev			X
Apache with mod_ssl and PHP5+	X
PHP5 with cli support and the GD and MySQL modules (packages php5-cli and php5-gd)	X
OpenSSL version 0.9.8+	X	X
libcurl-dev(el) / libcurl4-openssl-dev	X	X
libcurl version 7.17.1+		X
wxWidgets 2.8.3 (Configure with the `--with-gtk` `--disable-shared` options); BOINC needs a static library. If you have an older wxWidgets installed, uninstall it (`make uninstall`), then install 2.8. Make sure you have the 'development' version installed.			X
since 7.4.0: wxWidgets 3.0.0 (Configure with the `--with-gtk` `--disable-shared` options); BOINC needs a static library. If you have an older wxWidgets installed, uninstall it (`make uninstall`), then install 3.0. Make sure you have the 'development' version installed. On Debian you need the packages: libwxgtk3.0-dev, libwxgtk-webview3.0-dev			X
Graphics libraries: GL, GLU, GLUT (or freeglut). You'll need a static (.a) version of GLUT or freeglut (some Linux distributions come with only a dynamic version). Use the 'development' version of GLUT or freeglut.					X
jpeglib, X11 libraries and include files			X		X
libstdc++.a (needed for portable executables; on Fedora, the yum package is libstdc++-static-4.5.1-4.fc14.i686)				X	X

Examples for setups in various distributions

Packages needed for server and non-graphic library for Fedora Core 17 (Beefy Miracle) are:

git
libtool
gcc-c++
libstdc++-static
MySQL-python
php-mysql
php-gd
php-cli
openssl-devel
mysql-devel
mysql-server
httpd
php

To build on Ubuntu, I had to install the following (with apt-get):

git
python
make
m4
pkg-config
autoconf
libtool
dh-autoreconf
libmysqlclient-dev
libssl-dev
python-mysqldb
php5-mysql
libapache2-mod-php5
php5-gd
libnotify-dev

To build the screensaver on Ubuntu, I needed

xcb
libx11-xcb-dev
libxcb-util0-dev

Here is the list of packages that are needed to compile the BOINC graphics libs on Debian (the same packages should also be available on Ubuntu):

freeglut3-dev
libsm-dev
libice-dev
libxmu-dev
libxi-dev
libx11-dev
libjpeg62-dev

On CentOS 7.0, minimal, just compiling the client (run yum -y install gcc-c++ autoconf openssl-devel automake libtool libcurl-devel):

gcc-c++
autoconf
openssl-devel
automake
libtool
libcurl-devel

On Centos 7.0 to build the client and manager do the following:

Enable EPEL Repository (see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL)
Run sudo yum groupinstall "Development tools"
Run sudo yum install libXmu-devel libnotify-devel wxGTK3-devel wxGTK3 freeglut freeglut-devel libjpeg libjpeg-devel libXScrnSaver libXScrnSaver-devel xcb-util xcb-util-devel openssl openssl-devel libcurl libcurl-devel sqlite sqlite-devel
Run sudo ln -s /usr/bin/wx-config-3.0 /usr/bin/wx-config

For Debian and Ubuntu one may inspect the build dependencies for the .deb packages, which comprise both the client and the server:

wiki.debian.org/BOINC Instructions to build Debian or Ubuntu packages for BOINC
debian/control from repository Direct link to "debian/control" file with the "Build-Depends:" line.
overview on Versions of BOINC in Debian The Debian Package Tracking System on BOINC

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