System Requirements

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).