Awesome - I’ll be in touch. On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 8:41 AM Charlie Burnett <burne...@umn.edu> wrote:
> Hey what a coincidence, I’ve just started porting dependencies- I’ve got > VTK finished up and about to submit it! Let me know if you’d like to split > up the load! > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 8:46 AM Justin Noor <justinnoor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks for the heads up. I will look into that as well >> >> On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 6:41 AM Tracey Emery <tra...@traceyemery.net> >> wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:34:20AM -0700, Justin Noor wrote: >> > > Awesome, thank you. I’ll get started with those dependencies. >> > > >> > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 4:04 AM Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > > On 2020/06/04 21:04, Justin Noor wrote: >> > > > > Hi @ports, >> > > > > >> > > > > Is there anyone working on FreeCAD? It's not in /usr/ports/cad, >> and I >> > > > > searched the mailing list and did not find anything fruitful. If >> not, >> > > > would >> > > > > like to give it a shot if possible - this would be my first port. >> If >> > > > there >> > > > > is anyone working on it, please let me know how I can contribute. >> > > > > >> > > > > Thank you >> > > > >> > > > I haven't seen any indication that anyone's working on it. There is >> > > > a first attempt in openbsd-wip but it's nowhere near a working port >> > > > (just downloads the distfile and runs cmake which then fails due to >> > > > lack of dependencies) and hasn't been touched after the initial >> > > > addition in 2015. >> > > > >> > > > The starting point is to map out what's needed with the >> dependencies. >> > > > There's a list at https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Third_Party_Libraries >> > > > which is hopefully up-to-date enough to be useful. Some are >> available >> > > > in ports already (pkglocate will help find them) - may be a suitable >> > > > version already or may need updating. Others (including OpenCASCADE, >> > >> > To add to what Stuart said here, it should be possible to get freecad to >> > work with our OpenCASCADE Community Edition in cad/oce. Now, don't ask >> > me what secret sauce needs to be concocted to do so, but in theory, it >> > should work. >> > >> > > > Coin3d, PySide) will need porting first (and some of these will have >> > > > their own chain of dependencies). >> > > > >> > > > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > Tracey Emery >> > >> >
