Hello

I installed FreeBSD 10.3 under VirtualBox. This is the first time I use FreeBSD. Cool!
I managed to install X, XFCE and all applications I need. FPC and Lazarus both work.

Only thing missing now is FPC source code, needed by Lazarus. Can it be installed from ports with "pkg" command? I don't see sources in "pkg search fpc" output list.

BTW, the list starts like this:
# pkg search fpc
fpc-3.0.0 Free Pascal compiler with Turbo and Delphi ...

Funny :)

Another thing missing from my FreeBSD is proper keyboard mapping. It behaves like US keyboard now.
I remember similar problems with Linux distros a _long_ time ago. Anyway, this is not an FPC issue. I will find the configuration somewhere.

One more question:
Is installing OpenBSD much more difficult? I may try it, too.

Regards,
Juha

Hello Juha.

There is a FreeBSD distro with fpc 2.6.4 + 3.0.0 installed : polYdev.

Here announcement on FreeBSD forum :
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/53085/

Here where to download the iso :
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9nMtGPLtz40fklIUFdFMFl2R25wUFJfTEtEQ3pocjRjaU5CdUl3S0pFaHdYdktVNWg4V2M&usp=sharing

Fre;D

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Many thanks ;-)

Hello Juha.

There is a FreeBSD distro with fpc 2.6.4 + 3.0.0 installed : polYdev.

Here announcement on FreeBSD forum :
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/53085/

Here where to download the iso :
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9nMtGPLtz40fklIUFdFMFl2R25wUFJfTEtEQ3pocjRjaU5CdUl3S0pFaHdYdktVNWg4V2M&usp=sharing

And here the source-code of the distro:
https://github.com/fredvs/polYdev

Fre;D

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Many thanks ;-)

Juha Manninen wrote

I installed FreeBSD 10.3 under VirtualBox. This is the first time I use FreeBSD. Cool!

Welcome to the club. Next stop... install FreeBSD has your host OS.

Only thing missing now is FPC source code, needed by Lazarus. Can it be installed from ports with "pkg" command?

'pkg' install pre-built applications. 'ports' installs everything from source, and leaves the archives it downloaded in /usr/ports/distfiles/

Saying that, for the last 6 years I've only every installed FPC from the official FPC installers on SourceForge. I also download the FPC Source archives from there. I do this for FreeBSD, Linux and Windows and never had any issues.

Lazarus I then get from my Git mirror and compile a IDE binary myself. Again, I do this for all platforms I run.

Another thing missing from my FreeBSD is proper keyboard mapping.

You can set that up inside /etc/X11/xorg.conf

For example

Section "InputDevice"
## Filco tenkeyless keyboard
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbVariant" "dvorak-alt-intl"
EndSection

If you run KDE, Mate, Gnome2 etc, they have their own keyboard setup in whatever is their Control Panel dialog. I run a plainwindow manager (JWM) instead of a bloated desktop environment. I used to configure my keyboard via xorg.conf as shown above, but now simply add a xmodmap line in my ~/.xinitrc file, before the line that launches JWM.

xscreensaver -no-splash &
redshift -c ~/.config/redshift.conf &
xmodmap /data/devel/dvorak.xmodmap
exec /usr/local/bin/jwm

One more question: Is installing OpenBSD much more difficult? I may try it, too.

I've never tried OpenBSD. But if you want a more "linux like" experience (everything gets configured for you), then try PC-BSD. They have a nicely configured KDE by default, AppCafe for your application needs, a Control Panel etc. Apparently PC-BSD is a stock FreeBSD with desktop software and helper tools bolted on top.

Regards,
Graeme

Hello Graeme.

I/'ve never tried OpenBSD. But if you want a more "linux like" experience (everything gets configured for you), then try PC-BSD. /

Huh, afaik, PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD.

On my way, I prefer GhostBSD than PC-BSD. I always had problem with PC-BSD and GhostBSD works out-of-the box.

Fre;D

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Juha Manninen wrote

Another thing missing from my FreeBSD is proper keyboard mapping. It behaves like US keyboard now.

Hello.

You may use, if xorg was installed, in console :

setxkbmap xx

For example: setxkbmap us or setxkbmap fr or setxkbmap it,...

But, like Graeme noted, with PC-BSD or GhostBSD or polYdev, it can be done at installation.

Fre;D

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I never did that. Fpc in the ports has been fragmented into lots of single ports in the past. Since I prefer to have anything in one go I do the same as Graeme, using the official installers.

For lazarus anything I do is get the source, unpack an type "make bigide" in it's directory.

Another thing missing from my FreeBSD is proper keyboard mapping. It behaves like US keyboard now.

If you run X by the start script "startx" it is sufficient to add the following line to the file ".xinitrc" in you home directory:

setxkbmap de

Replacing the "de" with what you need. Type "man setxkbmap" in a terminal (xterm) for more info. And don't get confused, names starting with a dot are hidden but existing.

Have fun,
Marc

Thanks everybody for help and comments.
My memory is recovering slowly about keyboard configuration. It was many years ago I did it manually for Linux distros. But yes, "setxkbmap fi" in .xinitrc did the job.

I confused "pkg" and "ports". Must learn more about the topic.

I am quite happy with my current host OS, Manjaro Linux + KDE. Not planning to change it.
BSD experiments are for general learning and for testing Lazarus trunk with them.
For example this bug report can very likely be closed but I wanted to check myself:
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29077

Regards,
Juha

Easy if you know:

ports are sources ported to FreeBSD, the port holds patches, building rules, configuration, etc. They live in "the ports tree" usually in /usr/ports, if you installed it

packages are binary, precompiled programs, made from ports. Can be installed directly using "pkg".

pkg is the program for installing, deleting, getting info about packages, a package managing program.

I am quite happy with my current host OS, Manjaro Linux + KDE. Not planning to change it.

So you know about dot-names for hidden files and other basics. ;)

Marc

Marc Santhoff wrote

So you know about dot-names for hidden files and other basics. ;)

Yes sure.
Now I have apparently forgotten much of what I learned a long time ago, although it comes back after some repetition.

Juha