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Rom Walton edited this page Feb 5, 2015 · 5 revisions

If you build an application on a recent Linux distribution, it won't run on older Linux distributions because of library incompatibilities. The only solution we've discovered is to build applications on a host with an old Linux and an old GCC. Setting up such a host, however, is a giant pain.

Our recommended approach is not to build directly on a Linux host, but rather:

  • Download the Compatibility virtual machine module. This is a Debian Linux system with the appropriate (old) version of GCC.

  • Run this system under Virtual PC.

  • Install the stable server code on the virtual host.

  • Build the BOINC libraries by going to the 'boinc' directory and typing:

    _autosetup ./configure --disable-client --disable-server LDFLAGS=-static-libgcc make

For x86-64 builds, it's possible to take SSE2 for granted, as long as GCC is version 4.0+, then type instead:

_autosetup
./configure --disable-client --disable-server LDFLAGS=-static-libgcc CFLAGS=-ftree-vectorize CXXFLAGS=-ftree-vectorize FFLAGS=-ftree-vectorize
make

Do not 'make install'.

  • Go to the boinc/samples/example_app directory and type:

    ln -s g++ -print-file-name=libstdc++.a make

Other UNIX systems #other-unix

GLUT notes #glut-notes

Freeglut 2.2, freeglut 2.4 and OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) libraries are supported.

X11 notes #x11-notes

To get the X11 support, select the relevant options when you're installing Linux, or (Redhat) go to System Settings/Add Software.

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