Porting Requirements

In General, the following holds true:

• Bacula has been compiled and run on Linux RedHat, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems.

• In addition, clients exist on Win32, and Irix

• It requires GNU C++ to compile. You can try with other compilers, but you are on your own. The Irix client is built with the Irix complier, but, in general, you will need GNU.

• Your compiler must provide support for 64 bit signed and unsigned integers.

• You will need a recent copy of the autoconf tools loaded on your system (version 2.13 or later). The autoconf tools are used to build the configuration program, but are not part of the Bacula source distribution.

• There are certain third party packages that Bacula needs. Except for MySQL, they can all be found in the depkgs and depkgs1 releases.

• To build the Win32 binaries, we use Microsoft VC++ standard 2003. Please see the instructions in bacula-source/src/win32/README.win32 for more details. If you want to use VC++ Express, please see README.vc8. Our build is done under the most recent version of Cygwin, but Cygwin is not used in the Bacula binaries that are produced. Unfortunately, we do not have the resources to help you build your own version of the Win32 FD, so you are pretty much on your own. You can ask the bacula-devel list for help, but please don’t expect much.

• Bacula requires a good implementation of pthreads to work.

• The source code has been written with portability in mind and is mostly POSIX compatible. Thus porting to any POSIX compatible operating system should be relatively easy.

See also

• Steps to Take for Porting

Possible Next Steps

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