Running ion3 on FreeBSD

2008-03-022008-03-02

I just started to try out FreeBSD 7.0 (I am very impressed so far) and ran into huge problems installing my favorite window manager ion3 (Note - the link in the original blog post broke at some point in time). Apparently the main developer had some trouble with various distribution maintainers and forbade then to ship ion (link).

After some try and error (and a pointer in the right direction by Markus) I finally figured out how to tweak the system.mk to make ion3 compile.

I had to change the following things:

install to $(HOME)/ion (you have to create this directory first)
comment DL_LIBS=-ldl (as this lib seems to be part of the FreeBSD libc anyway)
Set the path for lua 5.1
uncomment DEFINES =+ -DCF_NO_LOCALE -DCF_NO_GETTEXT

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