Porting ROX applications

[Jochen]

Hello,
I'm new to FreeBSD and was looking for a system that runs on old
hardware.
I found ROX performs very well on old hardware and has a nice look &
feel.
Some ROX applications (e.g. rox-filer, rox-session) are already ported
to FreeBSD, but many are missing.
I want try to complete porting all ROX apps, but I'm not very familar
with the ports system, maybe someone can help a newbie making the first
steps. ;-)

I have already ported some apps, but did not make the ports structure
for submitting those ports.

There is something special with the ROX apps. They are not installed
file by file, but they consist of a whole directory tree that is
installed into /usr/local/apps. It is not necessary to unpack them into
a working dir, instead the tarball is extracted to /usr/local/apps and
then "/usr/local/apps/mynewapp/AppRun --compile" is run, if the app
contains some C code (many apps only consist of some python code and
need not be compiled).

The task would be: unpack the tarball into /usr/local/apps, make some
patches, run "AppRun --compile".

1. How can I do this with the ports system?

My next problem is, finding the right dependices. My first port,
ROX-CLib, depends on the following libraries:

gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.1
glib-2.0 >= 2.0.3
libxml-2.0 >= 2.4.0

2. How can I find out the correct entries for the LIB_DEPENDS (name of
the lib, package which contains this lib).

Jochen