4 \label{_ChapterStart51}
6 \chapter{System Requirements}
7 \index[general]{System Requirements }
8 \index[general]{Requirements!System }
11 \item {\bf Bacula} has been compiled and run on Red Hat Linux, FreeBSD, and
13 \item It requires GNU C++ version 2.95 or higher to compile. You can try with
14 other compilers and older versions, but you are on your own. We have
15 successfully compiled and used Bacula on RH8.0/RH9/RHEL 3.0/FC3 with GCC 3.4.
16 Note, in general GNU C++ is a separate package (e.g. RPM) from GNU C, so you
17 need them both loaded. On Red Hat systems, the C++ compiler is part of the
18 {\bf gcc-c++} rpm package.
19 \item There are certain third party packages that Bacula needs. Except for
20 MySQL and PostgreSQL, they can all be found in the {\bf depkgs} and {\bf
22 \item If you want to build the Win32 binaries, you will need a Microsoft
23 Visual C++ compiler (or Visual Studio). Although all components build
24 (console has some warnings), only the File daemon has been tested.
25 \item {\bf Bacula} requires a good implementation of pthreads to work. This
26 is not the case on some of the BSD systems.
27 \item The source code has been written with portability in mind and is mostly
28 POSIX compatible. Thus porting to any POSIX compatible operating system
29 should be relatively easy.
30 \item The GNOME Console program is developed and tested under GNOME 2.x. It
31 also runs under GNOME 1.4 but this version is deprecated and thus no longer
33 \item The wxWidgets Console program is developed and tested with the latest
34 stable ANSI or Unicode version of
35 \elink{wxWidgets}{http://www.wxwidgets.org/} (2.6.1). It works fine with the
36 Windows and GTK+-2.x version of wxWidgets, and should also work on other
37 platforms supported by wxWidgets.
38 \item The Tray Monitor program is developed for GTK+-2.x. It needs Gnome less
39 or equal to 2.2, KDE greater or equal to 3.1 or any window manager supporting
41 \elink{ FreeDesktop system tray
42 standard}{http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/systemtray-spec}.
43 \item If you want to enable command line editing and history, you will need
44 to have /usr/include/termcap.h and either the termcap or the ncurses library
45 loaded (libtermcap-devel or ncurses-devel).
46 \item If you want to use DVD as backup medium, you will need to download the
47 \elink{dvd+rw-tools 5.21.4.10.8}{http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/},
48 apply the \elink{patch}{http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/bacula/bacula/patches/dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8.bacula.patch}
49 to make these tools compatible with Bacula, then compile and install them.
50 Do not use the dvd+rw-tools provided by your distribution, they will not work