From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 5 23:42:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FDA016A404 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 23:42:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freenx@deweyonline.com) Received: from tuxpro.hyltown.com (docsis-cbm-15-101.nclxtn.lexcominc.net [209.102.254.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C2E913C4A3 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 23:42:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freenx@deweyonline.com) Received: from localhost (webmail.hyltown.com [10.0.0.247]) by tuxpro.hyltown.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id l25Ngq520906; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 18:42:52 -0500 Received: from 10.0.0.70 ([10.0.0.70]) by webmail.hyltown.com (IMP) with HTTP for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 18:44:36 -0500 Message-ID: <1173138276.45ecab642f632@webmail.hyltown.com> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 18:44:36 -0500 From: dewey hylton To: Simon Proven References: <45EC9094.8050309@simonproven.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <45EC9094.8050309@simonproven.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.1 X-Originating-IP: 10.0.0.70 Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: nxserver-1.4.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:42:37 -0000 Quoting Simon Proven : > > 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