Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:00:05 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Need help with Moonlight Creator port Message-ID: <XFMail.980311210005.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Someone on this list requested that someone do a port of Moonlight Creator (http://www.cybersociety.com/moonlight/), a really cool looking 3-D modeling and rendering thingie. Since I happen to have some free time (wow! what's that?) on my hands, and an interest in this sort of thing (after seeing the movie _Titanic_ and learning that a lot of the effects were done on Linux PC's -- wow!), I am now working on a port for it. Unfortun 1. This thing needs POSIX threads (either libpthread or libpthreads) in order to do "full multi-threaded radiosity computation." First I checked ports. There was no pthread/pthreads library there. Then, I thought about it, and I did a search on my system (using 'locate') for the string 'pthread' and lo and behold, I found a lot of stuff, including a pthread(3) man page, and a pthread.h #include file. I also found some indications that the pthread stuff is in the standard C library (libc)?? My question (really two questions) is this: a. Is there really a pthread/pthreads implementation built in to FreeBSD, and is it in the standard C library?, and b. Will it work for this purpose? 2. It needs to use the "libz" compression library, version 1.04. I see that FreeBSD comes with a /usr/lib/libz.so.2.0. Is this the "real" libz library, and will it work? (I saw some discussion on ports a while ago about a newer libz library and whether it would be incorporated into the FreeBSD src tree or not -- I wasn't paying much attention at the time.) 3. It also needs a libary(?) called "GLTT". Again I searched ports, and came up with nothing. I also consulted the standard set of search engines, and again came up with nothing (!). (Odd, since my searches usually turn up _too_much_ information...) I did post a question to usenet, but perhaps you FreeBSD porters know more about it -- where to get it, and how to port it (maybe someone's even working on a pot of it already?). Your answers to these questions will greatly assist me in my porting endeavors. TIA for your help! - --- Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNQdr1fjpixuAwagxAQGikwP/XeILM65b/TYj9CjyYnzZtGu0puwlaUQy 97hv5WoiIXJj92/Q+scvRZgAyFBFBJn5LRaq8m4Mb3+jWGBWIybXZsQ6SZk/6zLs Tz5cDoUVg9u57mNiQvZ0+qfMOsGkVC4POGOhsaQtEszJsLUK9ZCSM8hrKnTkF/1V cFcdFkY2b+4= =XQD5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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