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 The minimum versions for each of the databases supported by Bacula
31 \item If you want to build the Win32 binaries, please see the
32 README.mingw32 file in the src/win32 directory. We cross-compile the
33 Win32 release on Linux. We provide documentation on building the Win32
34 version, but due to the complexity, you are pretty much on your own
35 if you want to build it yourself.
36 \item {\bf Bacula} requires a good implementation of pthreads to work. This
37 is not the case on some of the BSD systems.
38 \item The source code has been written with portability in mind and is mostly
39 POSIX compatible. Thus porting to any POSIX compatible operating system
40 should be relatively easy.
41 \item The GNOME Console program is developed and tested under GNOME 2.x.
42 GNOME 1.4 is no longer supported.
43 \item The wxWidgets Console program is developed and tested with the latest
44 stable ANSI or Unicode version of
45 \elink{wxWidgets}{http://www.wxwidgets.org} (2.6.1). It works fine with the
46 Windows and GTK+-2.x version of wxWidgets, and should also work on other
47 platforms supported by wxWidgets.
48 \item The Tray Monitor program is developed for GTK+-2.x. It needs GNOME less
49 or equal to 2.2, KDE greater or equal to 3.1 or any window manager supporting
51 \elink{ FreeDesktop system tray
52 standard}{http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/systemtray-spec}.
53 \item If you want to enable command line editing and history, you will need
54 to have /usr/include/termcap.h and either the termcap or the ncurses library
55 loaded (libtermcap-devel or ncurses-devel).
56 \item If you want to use DVD as backup medium, you will need to download the
57 \elink{dvd+rw-tools 5.21.4.10.8}{http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/},
58 apply the patch that is in the {\bf patches} directory of the main
60 to make these tools compatible with Bacula, then compile and install them.
61 There is also a patch for dvd+rw-tools version 6.1, and we hope that the
62 patch is integrated into a later version.
63 Do not use the dvd+rw-tools provided by your distribution, unless you
64 are sure it contains the patch. dvd+rw-tools without the patch will not
65 work with Bacula. DVD media is not recommended for serious or important
66 backups because of its low reliability.