Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 18:44:36 -0500 From: dewey hylton <freenx@deweyonline.com> To: Simon Proven <simon@simonproven.co.uk> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: nxserver-1.4.0 Message-ID: <1173138276.45ecab642f632@webmail.hyltown.com> In-Reply-To: <45EC9094.8050309@simonproven.co.uk> References: <45EC9094.8050309@simonproven.co.uk>
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Quoting Simon Proven <simon@simonproven.co.uk>: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to work out how to make nxserver build for amd64 as I don't > have a working solution of any kind (either tightvnc or vnc also being > i386-only). > > I have been messing around trying to get it to build, and got past the > -fPIC issue with a couple of patches. However once it compiled, it did > *not* create libX11.so, it only produced libX11.a > > I've not managed to work out why this is yet; the Makefile generated in > lib/X11 is not sufficiently different from that in i386 to be the issue, > I perhaps need to diff the entire tree of generate Makefiles so I can > see if there is a difference that's relevant. I'm unfamiliar with the > xfree86 build system so that is not helping me. > > Do you have any ideas about what might be the best approach to making > this work? I'd really like to get it working. > > Thanks, > > Simon hello, Simon - thanks for your interest in the project! unfortunately i was never able to get the 1.4 sources to compile on a 64-bit system. in fact, i was never able to get the 1.5 sources to fully compile even on a 32-bit system. that was a good while ago, though, and 2.x have been released. thanks to another interested party, 2.x compiles on 32-bit systems (i'm not sure about 64-bit yet). you can find alpha ports here: http://www.deweyonline.com/nx/freebsd.html
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