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1) Message boards : Number crunching : supported/unsupported platforms (Message 4661)
Posted 9 Aug 2008 by Daniel
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Have pointed this thread out to Pav (who's the FreeBSD maintainer of all things BOINC), so maybe a port's not out of the question.


Ask, and you shall receive. Pav says:

The port is under works too.


Not that it's massively involved to install the app currently, but is nice to have a little more automation.


Sorry for replying to myself, but here's the port as promised. Stopped BOINC, installed it over the existing installation where I'd copied the files in, started BOINC again and all works perfectly.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : supported/unsupported platforms (Message 4655)
Posted 8 Aug 2008 by Daniel
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Have pointed this thread out to Pav (who's the FreeBSD maintainer of all things BOINC), so maybe a port's not out of the question.


Ask, and you shall receive. Pav says:

The port is under works too.


Not that it's massively involved to install the app currently, but is nice to have a little more automation.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : supported/unsupported platforms (Message 4654)
Posted 8 Aug 2008 by Daniel
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How about making a FreeBSD port of it (for 6 and 7 on i386 and amd64)?


that's unlikely to happen.
My recommendation is to run the linux binary, which is the fastest application atm.




Have pointed this thread out to Pav (who's the FreeBSD maintainer of all things BOINC), so maybe a port's not out of the question.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : supported/unsupported platforms (Message 4647)
Posted 7 Aug 2008 by Daniel
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Thank you very much indeed, worked beautifully. Took a few tries to realise I needed to chmod the various files, but once that was sorted it worked.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : supported/unsupported platforms (Message 4645)
Posted 7 Aug 2008 by Daniel
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Hi Everybody, for both our sanity i'm going to use this thread to keep a list of supported/unsupported platforms. If and of you have access to an unsupported platform and would like to help us make binaries for it, please feel free to send me a private message or email :)

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Currently unsupported: amd64-portbld-freebsd
I've build the boinc client from source (net/boinc-client port, no special configuration except that I told the compiler to optimize for my CPU type).

Would an app_info.xml help here?


Same question really, was overjoyed to eventually find a project that would work properly with FreeBSD, but can't seem to work out how to tell it that i386-portbld-freebsd is the same as i386-unknown-freebsd. Or is it, have I missed something obvious?




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