FrankenWM on FreeBSD

bsdmagic

Hi, can anyone help me get FrankenWM compiled on FreeBSD? I was running it on Linux but not I'm not on that anymore. I've noticed some of you are using FrankenWM but I'm pretty sure most of you use NetBSD.

When I try to compile it with 'make clean install' I get:

make: "/usr/home/[me]/.config/FrankenWM/Makefile" line 18: Need an operator
make: "/usr/home/[me]/.config/FrankenWM/Makefile" line 20: Need an operator
make: "/usr/home/[me]/.config/FrankenWM/Makefile" line 23: Need an operator
make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
make: stopped in /usr/home/[me]/.config/FrankenWM

If anyone could help that would be very appreciated.

bsduck

It works if you build it with GCC instead of Clang. Use gmake (install it first, it isn't included in the base system).

bsdmagic

bsduck I think I'm getting closer. I ran 'gmake clean install' and now I get:

EDIT: Nevermind, I got it. I had to install pkgconf. Thanks for helping.

$ gmake clean install
cleaning
frankenwm build options:
/bin/sh: pkg-config: not found
CFLAGS = -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -I. -I. -g
/bin/sh: pkg-config: not found
LDFLAGS = -lc -lX11 -g
CC = cc
CC frankenwm.c
/bin/sh: pkg-config: not found
frankenwm.c:13:10: fatal error: 'X11/Xlib.h' file not found
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
~~~~~~_~~
1 error generated.
gmake: *** [Makefile:35: frankenwm.o] Error 1

tcmart14

You may need to go into a config file (.conf) and change a path. On DWM, the source provided from suckless uses /usr/X11R6/blah blah blah, but on NetBSD 9.2, it needs to be changed to /usr/X11R7/blah blah blah. So try checking the paths where it is looking for X11 header files.

Edit: not .conf, but for dwm it is a file called config.mk.

For reference, the lines in dwm's file are these:
X11INC = /usr/X11R6/include X11LIB = /usr/X11R6/lib

FrankenWM is probably having the same thing going on where the path to find X11 header files is not correct. As indicated by this line from your output:

frankenwm.c:13:10: fatal error: 'X11/Xlib.h' file not found

tcmart14 Nah, just missing pkgconf, I've commited that change (patch from Maya) over a year ago, https://github.com/sulami/FrankenWM/commit/8b3e59403bb20a7fd9b8f4addb0238381d5e847b

tcmart14

pin Gotcha. I don't use FrankenWM I just recognized the problem because the same thing happens in DWM and just through out the solution I've used in DWM. Awesome to see you guys got a patch in for pkg-config.