Compiling Cinnamon Desktop

[Farhan Khan]

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 3:52 AM, Farhan Khan <khanzf at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/29/2018 07:28 PM, Charlie Li wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Hi Charlie,
>
> I would be interested in reviewing the build-process. Are there any
> documentation or notes on what the folks who built it did? It seems that it
> would be quite similar to MATE, but I could be wrong. Using gmake over
> make(1) is a trivial matter gmake(1). Is there anything more substantive
> that involves changing code?
>
> Thanks!
>

Hi, just reaching back out.

I am still interested in updating/compiling Cinnamon on my own with a
modern version. I imagine it is not too different from compiling stock
Gnome. Can I see the current/older Gnome or Cinnamon compiling scripts or
build process?

Thanks!