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Building Pd for the various BSD variants is similar to the Linux way. The major difference is the used package manager (and the names of the packages), you’ll want to install.
(Tested on FreeBSD-13)
Install the core build requirements:
sudo pkg install gcc automake autoconf libtool gettext gmake
You may install one (or more) libraries (depending on your needs). It seems that with FreeBSD-13, there are ALSA and JACK packages available:
sudo pkg install alsa-lib jackit
Once your build system is set up, you can follow the general autotools build
steps to build Pd, but make sure to use gmake (aka “GNU make”).
The ordinary BSD make will not suffice!
./autogen.sh
./configure --deken-os=FreeBSD MAKE=gmake
gmake
sudo gmake install
(Tested on OpenBSD-7)
Install the core build requirements:
sudo pkg_add gcc automake autoconf libtool gettext-tools gmake
(If there are multiple versions for one or more of the packages, pick your favourite or the newest one).
You may install one (or more) libraries (depending on your needs). It seems that with OpenBSD-7, there are only JACK packages available:
sudo pkg_add jack
By default, OpenBSD installs all its packages into /usr/local/,
but the compiler does not look for headers resp. libraries in this directory.
We can instruct autotools to automatically consider these directories
by creating a file ‘/usr/local/share/config.site’:
cat | sudo tee /usr/local/share/config.site>/dev/null << EOF
CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include \$CPPFLAGS"
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib \$LDFLAGS"
EOF
Also, because OpenBSD allows to coinstall multiple versions of the autotools (with no “default”), we must specify which version we want to use:
export AUTOCONF_VERSION=$(ls -S /usr/local/bin/autoconf-* | sed -e 's|.*-||' | sort -n | tail -1)
export AUTOMAKE_VERSION=$(ls -S /usr/local/bin/automake-* | sed -e 's|.*-||' | sort -n | tail -1)
Now that your build system is set up, you can follow the general autotools build
steps to build Pd, but make sure to use gmake (aka “GNU make”).
The ordinary BSD make will not suffice!
./autogen.sh
./configure --deken-os=OpenBSD --enable-jack MAKE=gmake
gmake
sudo gmake install
(Tested on NetBSD-9)
Install the core build requirements:
sudo pkgin install gcc automake autoconf libtool gettext-tools gmake
You may install one (or more) libraries (depending on your needs). It seems that with NetBSD-9, there are JACK and ALSA packages available, but the ALSA packages seem to be broken. OSS appears to be built-in.
sudo pkgin install jack
By default, NetBSD installs all its packages into /usr/pkg/,
but the compiler does not look for headers resp. libraries in this directory.
We can instruct autotools to automatically consider these directories
by creating a file ‘/usr/pkg/share/config.site’:
cat | sudo tee /usr/pkg/share/config.site>/dev/null << EOF
CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/pkg/include \$CPPFLAGS"
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib \$LDFLAGS"
EOF
Now that your build system is set up, you can follow the general autotools build
steps to build Pd, but make sure to use gmake (aka “GNU make”).
The ordinary BSD make will not suffice!
./autogen.sh
./configure --deken-os=NetBSD --prefix=/usr/pkg --disable-alsa --enable-jack MAKE=gmake
gmake
sudo gmake install