Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x

[Eric Anderson]

On 04/03/07 15:30, Roman Divacky wrote:
>> However, FWIW, I will consider the requirements met if vmware 5.5 can be
>> made to run on either FreeBSD 6.x-R or 7.x-R.
> 
> well.. the first point is to actually TRY the vmware on 7.x, when we know
> why it doesn't work we can decide further...
> 
> anyone volunteering? :)


Since I haven't played too much with rpms/additional non-ports stuff in 
the emulation area on FreeBSD, I have a (maybe simple) question:

How do I get these other libraries installed (look for 'not found')?

$ ldd ./vmware
./vmware:
         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x286dd000)
         libm.so.6 => /lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libm.so.6 (0x286e2000)
         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x28708000)
         libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x287db000)
         libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x287ea000)
         libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x287f2000)
         libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x28811000)
         libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x2883c000)
         libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x288a4000)
         libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x288ac000)
         libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x288bf000)
         libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x28948000)
         libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x2894c000)
         libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x28989000)
         libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x2898e000)
         libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x289a5000)
         libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x289db000)
         libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0x28a00000)
         libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0x28a06000)
         libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x28a12000)
         libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 
(0x28a96000)
         libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x28aac000)
         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x28da3000)
         libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x28dad000)
         libsigc-2.0.so.0 => not found
         libglibmm-2.4.so.1 => not found
         libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.so.1 => not found
         libatkmm-1.6.so.1 => not found
         libpangomm-1.4.so.1 => not found
         libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 => not found
         libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 => not found
         libart_lgpl_2.so.2 => not found
         libxml2.so.2 => not found
         libglade-2.0.so.0 => not found
         libgnomecanvas-2.so.0 => not found
         libgnomecanvasmm-2.6.so.1 => not found
         librsvg-2.so.2 => not found
         libview.so.2 => not found
         libsexy.so.1 => not found
         libsexymm.so.1 => not found
         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libpthread.so.0 
(0x28e6a000)
         libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x28ebd000)
         libc.so.6 => /lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libc.so.6 (0x28ed0000)
         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x286be000)
         libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x28fef000)
         libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x28ff3000)
         libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0x28ff7000)
         libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x28ffc000)