olvwm on amd64

[Luciano Rottava da Silva]

That´s the point. Binary packages are available for i386, but I guess it´s
not possible to run them in FreeBSD. Maybe similar to OpenBSD where amd64
platform does not run i386 packages, as far as I know.

Because of that, I thought about running binary packages (i386 also) from
Linux using FreeBSD compat layer. Hope it will work.

However, I wonder how Linux distributions do that! I have a Ubuntu desktop,
amd64, running olvwm.

We know xview is not availabe for 64-bit platforms, but applications based
on it run perfectly in Linux.

How come?!

Best Regards.

On 21 November 2014 04:53, Alnis Morics <alnis.morics at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 11/21/2014 00:09, Luciano Rottava da Silva wrote:
>
>> Thanks Alnis but, isn't xview only available for i386?
>>
>> I am stuck because of it. Or am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> root at desktop:/usr/ports/x11-wm/olvwm # make install clean
>> ===>   olvwm-4.2_1 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - found
>> ===> Fetching all distfiles required by olvwm-4.2_1 for building
>> ===>  Extracting for olvwm-4.2_1
>> => SHA256 Checksum OK for olvwm4.tar.Z.
>> => SHA256 Checksum OK for olvwm4.Patch01.Z.
>> => SHA256 Checksum OK for olvwm4.Patch02.Z.
>> ===>  Patching for olvwm-4.2_1
>> ===>  Applying distribution patches for olvwm-4.2_1
>> ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for olvwm-4.2_1
>> ===>   olvwm-4.2_1 depends on executable: imake - found
>> ===>   olvwm-4.2_1 depends on executable: tradcpp - found
>> ===>   olvwm-4.2_1 depends on file: /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/xpm.pc -
>> found
>> ===>   olvwm-4.2_1 depends on shared library: libxview.so - not found
>> ===>    Verifying for libxview.so in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/xview
>> ===>  xview-3.2.1.4.19c_1 is only for i386, while you are running amd64.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop.
>> make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/xview
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop.
>> make: stopped in /usr/ports/x11-wm/olvwm
>>
>>
>> On 20 November 2014 19:29, Alnis Morics <alnis.morics at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  On 11/20/2014 23:01, Luciano Rottava da Silva wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to setup up a new FreeBSD desktop at home based on the new
>>>> 10.1
>>>> release.
>>>>
>>>> As usual, my wm of choice is olvwm. Well, didn't know ports/packages are
>>>> not available for amd64, only for i386.
>>>>
>>>> Searching on the Internet I've read in many places the problem is with
>>>> xview and there's no hope for 64-bit platform.
>>>>
>>>> But then I've found the following website:
>>>>
>>>> http://physionet.caregroup.harvard.edu/physiotools/xview/
>>>>
>>>> So, question is, is it possible to run a i386 Linux package in my amd64
>>>> Free machine? Would it be possible run the i386 FreeBSD packages xview
>>>> and
>>>> olvwm?
>>>>
>>>> How can I run my beloved olvwm? There must be a way!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>>> Luciano.
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>>>>  Of course ports are available for amd64. Just run
>>>
>>> portsnap fetch extract
>>>
>>> to download and extract the ports tree.
>>>
>>> And olvwm is in ports. To install it, run:
>>>
>>> cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/olvwm
>>> make install clean
>>>
>>> The manual chapter on how to work with ports:
>>>
>>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/
>>> handbook/ports-using.html
>>>
>>> -Alnis
>>>
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> Ah, I see. Then it's way more complicated. You need a 32-bit build
> environment. There are examples of how to build Wine (which is a 32-bit
> application, too) on a amd64 system (no longer needed because now there's a
> i386-wine port) which involves preparing a 32-bit build environment. You
> can take one such example (say, http://daemon-notes.com/
> articles/other/wine/prepare) and build xview instead. But I guess it's an
> overkill unless you can't do without xview.
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