[asterisk-users] Is Asterisk a Linux only system?

[Matthew Jordan]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:38 AM, David M. Lee <dlee at digium.com> wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Joshua Colp <jcolp at digium.com> wrote:
>
> Justin Sherrill wrote:
>
> I would love to run Asterisk on a BSD system.  I do not know of any
> developers actively working on Asterisk on a BSD platform, though my
> knowledge isn't comprehensive.
>
>
> I'm also unaware of anyone developing on BSD like that. Linux of course
> and a smattering of folks on OSX doing the odd thing.
>
>
> /me is an odd developer occasionally doing odd things on OS X.
>
> If anyone wants to improve Asterisk on any non-Linux system, a good place
> to start is to run it with some of the common developer flags enabled
> (pass --enable-dev-mode to configure, enable DO_CRASH, enable
> the TEST_FRAMEWORK and run the tests).
>
> The increased warning level on GCC catches a few portability bugs, that
> are usually straightforward to fix. The tests can be harder, since you
> don’t know if it’s a problem in the test itself, or in Asterisk.
>
> Unfortunately, I doubt the Python test suite would run on non-Linux. I
> don’t even bother trying to run it on Ubuntu; I have a CentOS VM
> specifically for running the test suite to avoid platform problems.
>
>
It runs just fine on Debian based systems. Most issues you will run into
are just making sure the dependencies are set up correctly.

It does require Python 2.6+ (recommended: Python 2.7 just in case something
has slipped in that we missed.)

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Matthew Jordan
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