Install-amule-freebsd

maybe this page outdates soon, until then it may help u

install amule 2.0.0rc3 on freebsd 5.x

why would u ask... we have /usr/ports/net/amule

well, this is the stable version 1.2.6

we wanna stay current or help testing / debugging, why else would u read this?

install ports we need if u dont allready have (see pkg_info)

security/cryptopp

and

x11-toolkits/wxgtk

and (but u will have this already ;-)

devel/gettext

and (but u will have this already ;-)

devel/gmake

u know how to install ports as a bsd user, so i dont have to tell u i hope. its just too easy u know. in case ur very new to freebsd, consult the great handbook at www.freebsd.org.

NOTE: if u think u have wxgtk installed because u see wxgtk2, u should know, wxgtk is linked to gtk1 and wxgtk2 is linked to gtk2. wxgtk2 and amule will be unstable! u have to use wxgtk, not wxgtk2!

set debug or optimization flags (optional)

if ur shell is tcsh:

setenv CFLAGS <flags>

and

setenv CXXFLAGS <flags>

if ur shell is bash:

export CFLAGS <flags>

and

export CXXFLAGS="<flags>

if u want a version to debug when it crashed, or to send in good bug reports flags must not contain any -O or optimization flags, but -g3 instead

for source code debugging yourself add -Wall to <flags>

if u want a fast optimized version, u can try the following working flags:

-O2 -pipe -march=athlon

this compiled clean for me. u probly wanna change the march-type to match ur cpu. try athlon-xp or p4 or something like that :-)

-O3 or any other flags may not work for u, i completely dont know.

configure

the ./configure does not work 100% automagically, we must help it out a bit

i used the following line of configure, wich may differ for u a bit due to differend os or library versions u have installed

right now this line works for FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT 03-May-2004 for example but version numbers may be differend for freebsd 5.2.1 or the upcomming 5.3

edit the <your home> tag of course, or install it elsewhere...

./configure --prefix=/home/<your home>/amule --with-wx-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/wxgtk-2.4-config --with-wxbase-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/wxgtk-2.4-config

this is one single line, not 3 lines or whatever wiki/html/ur browser wraps this line into...

u will see configure doesnt find gdlib-config, even if u unstalled gdlib, dont care, its just not there, but ist no "must have". skip it.

NOTE: if u get the following warning at the end of configure u are probably linking to exgtk2 instead of wxgtk, and ur amule will memleak and eat ur cpu, well it will probably crash as well. use wxgtk as mentioned above.

WARNING!! Your wxWidgets copy has been linked against GTK2 and this will make aMule be instable, use so much cpu and ram. You have been advised, dont report bugs so.

patch

as there is no official freebsd support in amule yet?! we will patch it to work... well there is openbsd support and this support will work for us too :-)

edit src/amule.cpp

and insert

#define __OPENBSD__

at the top of this file. i placed it right before the first #include line...

what a workaround u may scream. hey we dont fiddle too much around with the code, just hack it to work and get ready to share ;-)

make

make will fail, due to the bsd make is not compatible with gnu make and amule does not care yet, anyways...

install gnu make if u dont already have its placed: /usr/ports/devel/gmake/

then all u have to do is:

gmake

now it should compile

then u do, of course:

gmake install

use it

just start it with /home/<your home>/amule/bin/amule or whereever u installed it to...

have phun

Eugene