Remmina ported to FreeBSD

[Chris H]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:06:15 +0100 Antenore Gatta <antenore at simbiosi.org> wrote

> Hi all,
> 
> Since a couple of years, I'm the new maintainer of Remmina (with
> another guy, Giovanni), a GTK remote desktop application.
> 
> I've also got rid of most of my Linux desktop to pass to FreeBSD as my
> main desktop environment (philosophical reasons).
> 
> I've modified Remmina and requested some changes in the last
> FreeRDP version so that both now, compile on FreeBSD without any
> (almost) issues. [1][2]
> 
> I'd like to help out with the port, of both packages, to update them to
> the latest version, since we fixed tons og bugs and implemented tens of
> new features.
> 
> Honestly I'm less than a newbie on FreeBSD so I'd really appreciate
> some guidance, that doesn't mean I want to avoid to RTFM, I just want
> to read the right one.
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance for your support!
> 
> [1]https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/pull/779 (merged in main trunk)
> [2]https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/wiki/How-to-compile-Remmina-on-FreeBSD
> 
> Kind regards
> 
Hello, Antenore.
Looking at [2] it appears you have a somewhat fat RUN_DEPENDS list
for each of the 2 ports you intend to create. You can probably get
up to speed fairly quickly by reading the Slow Porting[3] section
of the FreeBSD porters documentation. You should be fine mostly
glossing over it, using the appendixes for references, as need be.
After giving it a quick read, look in the ports tree for some
examples of similar applications to get a better feel for how to
compose the Makefile, and what's needed to create the additional
files to create a complete port for your port(s). If, along the way
you still find you have questions; feel free to email me off list,
and I'll be happy to help you out. You also have the FreeBSD Forums[4]
and IRC channels[5] available to you for support.

[3]
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/slow-porting.html
[4] http://forums.freebsd.org
[5] https://www.freebsd.org/community/irc.html

Hope this helps!

--Chris