4 \chapter{System Requirements}
6 \index[general]{System Requirements }
7 \index[general]{Requirements!System }
10 \item {\bf Bacula} has been compiled and run on Red Hat Linux, FreeBSD, and
12 \item It requires GNU C++ version 2.95 or higher to compile. You can try with
13 other compilers and older versions, but you are on your own. We have
14 successfully compiled and used Bacula on RH8.0/RH9/RHEL 3.0/FC3 with GCC 3.4.
15 Note, in general GNU C++ is a separate package (e.g. RPM) from GNU C, so you
16 need them both loaded. On Red Hat systems, the C++ compiler is part of the
17 {\bf gcc-c++} rpm package.
18 \item There are certain third party packages that Bacula needs. Except for
19 MySQL and PostgreSQL, they can all be found in the {\bf depkgs} and {\bf
21 \item If you want to build the Win32 binaries, you will need a Microsoft
22 Visual C++ compiler (or Visual Studio). Although all components build
23 (console has some warnings), only the File daemon has been tested.
24 \item {\bf Bacula} requires a good implementation of pthreads to work. This
25 is not the case on some of the BSD systems.
26 \item The source code has been written with portability in mind and is mostly
27 POSIX compatible. Thus porting to any POSIX compatible operating system
28 should be relatively easy.
29 \item The GNOME Console program is developed and tested under GNOME 2.x. It
30 also runs under GNOME 1.4 but this version is deprecated and thus no longer
32 \item The wxWidgets Console program is developed and tested with the latest
33 stable ANSI or Unicode version of
34 \elink{wxWidgets}{http://www.wxwidgets.org/} (2.6.1). It works fine with the
35 Windows and GTK+-2.x version of wxWidgets, and should also work on other
36 platforms supported by wxWidgets.
37 \item The Tray Monitor program is developed for GTK+-2.x. It needs Gnome less
38 or equal to 2.2, KDE greater or equal to 3.1 or any window manager supporting
40 \elink{ FreeDesktop system tray
41 standard}{http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/systemtray-spec}.
42 \item If you want to enable command line editing and history, you will need
43 to have /usr/include/termcap.h and either the termcap or the ncurses library
44 loaded (libtermcap-devel or ncurses-devel).
45 \item If you want to use DVD as backup medium, you will need to download the
46 \elink{dvd+rw-tools 5.21.4.10.8}{http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/},
47 apply the \elink{patch}{http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/bacula/bacula/patches/dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8.bacula.patch}
48 to make these tools compatible with Bacula, then compile and install them.
49 Do not use the dvd+rw-tools provided by your distribution, they will not work