On 13/10/2009 5:30 PM, David Southwell wrote:
> Hi
>
> Has anyone tried to port podofo to freebsd for inclusion in the ports tree?.
> A
> freebsd port would be appreciated.
I don't believe there's any official port, in the sense of a portfile
for inclusion in the ports tree, but it should be trivial to create one.
PoDoFo should build and run just fine on FreeBSD - just install CMake
plus the libraries PoDoFo depends on and build it as per the README. I
don't know of any regular testing that goes on with FreeBSD, but it just
shouldn't be any different to Linux for PoDoFo's purposes - we're pretty
free of glibc-isms thanks to the win32 and Mac OS X ports, and don't
touch low level OS stuff much anyway. About the only really OS-specific
code is the threading support code, and so long as FreeBSD implements
POSIX threads (which I'm sure it does) there should be no problems there.
If you have any issues then please let me know, making sure to mention:
- The PoDoFo version you're building and where you got it from;
- your compiler and the version of that compiler;
- the version of FreeBSD you're using;
- your CMake version;
- the command you used to invoke CMake; and
- the CMakeCache.txt and podofo_config.h files from the build tree
- the FULL, EXACT output of the command:
LANG=C make VERBOSE=1
run in the build tree, including any compiler error message produced.
I don't use FreeBSD myself ( I find that regular development on Linux,
Windows and Mac OS X keeps me quite busy enough ) so I can't really be
of any direct help. There seem to be lots of guides on making ports out
there, though, and it doesn't look hard for reasonably sane-to-build
software.
--
Craig Ringer
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