An interesting effort, which I applaud; the work of porting is a great way to uncover issues and make improvements in areas that rarely see any attention, so kudos to you and I look forward to seeing continued updates. Thank you for the kind words kkremitzki , they motivate me a lot. I'm almost fin...

I studied this topic a bit more, and I am thinking that porting to OpenBSD could be non-sensical, because the port already exists for FreeBSD, and the reason is that FreeBSD is more general-purpose than OpenBSD. I am not sure, if people will actually want to run CAD on OpenBSD, because OpenBSD seem...

This is not exactly what I was asking for. I am asking for a way to know how to avoid duplicate work in case someone has already fixed a part of a port or a dependency port. Once again, you can clone my personal git repo of WIP ports and make any tweaks you want. If you want me to include those cha...

Can you set up some more organized place for keeping track of things, in particular ports of dependencies? As explained in the top post, you can find my work on the dependencies in my personal repo which you can clone (see the ssh://anon... url) and tweak as you please. Further, I am not sure what ...

If you prefer you can use trelau's fork of SMESH https://github.com/trelau/SMESH which was/is used for the Conda builds AFAIK Ah nice! I see that other distros (e.g. fedora) are using this fork for their ports. I'll see how far I can get with it. Thanks! The C++ library is sufficient. Got it, thanks!

@wmayer Also, regarding orocos-kdl, are the python bindings needed? Or only the C++ library?

@wmayer, I see most ports out there use the Salome SMESH included in the FreeCAD source tree. Is there any specific reason for this? Also I'm having trouble finding documentation on how to compile it from source. Could you perhaps provide any useful hints about this please?

Yes, but I found no guarantees that even make clean is implemented by the Makefile. The targets are not defined in the port Makefile, but are included by the line .include <bsd.port.mk> . Please consider asking questions that are not specific to the FreeCAD port in the mailing list (ports@openbsd.o...

mavavilj wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 12:24 pm again I am not sure if the build started from zero and is equivalent to the "virgin" build.

You probably need to clean the build directory with Have you read the OpenBSD Porting guide?

@mavavilj I'm not sure what you need.