FreeBSD Port: nxserver-1.4.0

[dewey hylton]

Quoting Simon Proven <simon at simonproven.co.uk>:

> 
> 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