4 \chapter{System Requirements}
6 \index[general]{System Requirements }
7 \index[general]{Requirements!System }
10 \item {\bf Bacula} has been compiled and run on OpenSuSE 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 using GNU C++ version 4.1.3.
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 may need. Except for
19 MySQL and PostgreSQL, they can all be found in the {\bf depkgs} and {\bf
20 depkgs1} releases. However, most current Linux and FreeBSD systems
21 provide these as system packages.
22 \item If you want to build the Win32 binaries, please see the
23 README.mingw32 file in the src/win32 directory. We cross-compile the
24 Win32 release on Linux. We provide documentation on building the Win32
25 version, but due to the complexity, you are pretty much on your own
26 if you want to build it yourself.
27 \item {\bf Bacula} requires a good implementation of pthreads to work. This
28 is not the case on some of the BSD systems.
29 \item The source code has been written with portability in mind and is mostly
30 POSIX compatible. Thus porting to any POSIX compatible operating system
31 should be relatively easy.
32 \item The GNOME Console program is developed and tested under GNOME 2.x.
33 GNOME 1.4 is no longer supported.
34 \item The wxWidgets Console program is developed and tested with the latest
35 stable ANSI or Unicode version of
36 \elink{wxWidgets}{\url{http://www.wxwidgets.org/}} (2.6.1). It works fine with the
37 Windows and GTK+-2.x version of wxWidgets, and should also work on other
38 platforms supported by wxWidgets.
39 \item The Tray Monitor program is developed for GTK+-2.x. It needs GNOME less
40 or equal to 2.2, KDE greater or equal to 3.1 or any window manager supporting
42 \elink{ FreeDesktop system tray
43 standard}{\url{http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/systemtray-spec}}.
44 \item If you want to enable command line editing and history, you will need
45 to have /usr/include/termcap.h and either the termcap or the ncurses library
46 loaded (libtermcap-devel or ncurses-devel).
47 \item If you want to use DVD as backup medium, you will need to download the
48 \elink{dvd+rw-tools 5.21.4.10.8}{\url{http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/}},
49 apply the patch that is in the {\bf patches} directory of the main
51 to make these tools compatible with Bacula, then compile and install them.
52 There is also a patch for dvd+rw-tools version 6.1, and we hope that the
53 patch is integrated into a later version.
54 Do not use the dvd+rw-tools provided by your distribution, unless you
55 are sure it contains the patch. dvd+rw-tools without the patch will not
56 work with Bacula. DVD media is not recommended for serious or important
57 backups because of its low reliability.