- Bacula has been compiled and run on Linux, FreeBSD,
and Solaris systems.
- It requires GNU C++ version 2.95 or higher to compile. You can try
with other compilers and older versions, but you are on your
own. We have successfully compiled and used Bacula on
RH8.0/RH9/RHEL 3.0 with GCC 3.2. Note, in general GNU C++ is a
separate package (e.g. RPM) from GNU C, so you need them both
loaded. On RedHat systems, the C++ compiler is part of the
gcc-c++ rpm package.
- There are certain third party packages that Bacula needs.
Except for MySQL and PostgreSQL, they can all be found in the
depkgs and depkgs1 releases.
- If you want to build the Win32 binaries, you should know
that they are cross-compiled on a Linux machine. For
more information, please see the src/win32/README.mingw32
file in the source distribution.
Although we document it, we do not support building the
Win32 binaries. Only the Win32 File daemon is officially
supported, though the other daemons are available in the
binary release.
- Bacula requires a good implementation of pthreads to work.
This is not the case on some of the BSD systems.
- 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.
- The GNOME Console program is developed and tested under GNOME 2.x.
- The wxWidgets Console program is developed and tested with the
latest stable version of wxWidgets (2.6). It
works fine with the Windows and GTK+-2.x version of wxWidgets,
and should also works on other platforms supported by
wxWidgets.
- The Tray Monitor program is developed for GTK+-2.x. It needs
Gnome >=2.2, KDE >=3.1 or any window manager supporting the
FreeDesktop system tray standard.
- If you want to enable command line editing and history, you will
need to have /usr/include/termcap.h and either the termcap or the
ncurses library loaded (libtermcap-devel or ncurses-devel).
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