Packaging port for FreeBSD

rozniak commented 1 year ago

Issue to track progress on packaging port to FreeBSD.

I think FreeBSD has XFCE available... it would be interesting to target a non-Linux system for this project.

rozniak commented 11 months ago

A few things to note so far:

Deploy into /usr/local and not /usr - apparently the former is for third party stuff (like this project) and the latter is for the base system only
- Further to this, the /packaging/cmake-inc/libraries/pkgconfig.pc.in is hard coded to prefix=/usr, which needs to be prefix=@CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@
PkgConfig is in /usr/local/share, currently it goes to ${prefix}/lib
amd64 target needs adding for library location here https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc/blob/master/packaging/cmake-inc/packaging/CMakeLists.txt#L28
Only uses lib not lib64
realpath -s is not available on FreeBSD I think, might be other GNU-isms or whatever
There are some strict compile warnings that need fixing

rozniak commented 9 months ago

My journey into FreeBSD begins.

rozniak commented 9 months ago

FreeBSD does not have Plymouth, I think there is only splash for displaying a static bitmap?

rozniak commented 9 months ago

Nearly there with this port:

Remaining things:

Need to handle using splash in place of Plymouth using a static boot graphic
Sort out harded coded /usr/share/wintc path used by the Start menu
File bug report to sort out the sysinfo stuff later when winver is fixed up, for some reason it reports way less RAM than it should but not worth postponing the whole port for it
Update README
Test that this work hasn't broken any distros (retest build on Debian, Arch, Alpine)

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