Compiling Cinnamon Desktop

[Charlie Li]

On 27/04/2018 18:05, Farhan Khan wrote:
> Literally the only reason I haven't switched my desktop from Linux Mint to
> FreeBSD is that I really like my Cinnamon theme. I would like to compile
> the latest version of Cinnamon and run it on FreeBSD, but haven't been able
> to figure out the process -- the one on their github repo is specific to
> Linux and even then it appears to error out very early on (I can provide
> the exact error if requested).
> 
Cinnamon's build process requires using GNU make (devel/gmake) instead
of make in base, among other things. There also exist assorted patches
within this suite of ports to fix these BSD-specific errors.
> Are there any steps you have for compiling Cinnamon? I would really like to
> try to do so myself so I can get myself a current version of Cinammon? I
> believe the FreeBSD version is 2.4 and Cinnamon is up to 3.6 at this point.
> 
I'm currently working on updating the suite of ports for internal
testing and public review. Just like you, I also liked using Cinnamon on
my previous operating system, although currently using MATE on FreeBSD
as an interim measure. Things have been slow on my end due to outside
factors, but quite a lot has changed between Cinnamon 2.4 and 3.6.

I can report that I've updated most of the ports on my local ports tree;
there are still a few stragglers plus deciding how to include X-Apps.
Plus I'd like to clean up the port Makefiles a bit more for
maintainability's sake.

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Charlie Li
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