KDE on a FreeBSD

[Vladimir Mencl, MK, susSED]

  Hi. I've been trying to use KDE-Beta2 on a FreeBSD 2.2.1, and had
several problems with compiling it and running. Here they are, together
with their solution.

kdebase:

kaudioserver.cpp had a serious bug, in function main fclose was called even 
if fopen failed.

!!!! kaudio/kaudioserver.cpp

126a127
>   {
128,129c129,130
<
<   fclose(KMServerPidHandle);
---
>     fclose(KMServerPidHandle);
>   };

I had problem linking kcontrol/info, I was getting message __malloc__FUi
in processor.o not found. That was because of your declaration of
malloc, I had to add 

extern "C" 

int front of its declaration.

kdemultimedia:

I had problems compiling a lot of programs from this package, mostly
because of missing header files. pthread header file is on FreeBSD
available as pthread.h and not pthread/mit/pthread.h.
  Also, there's no sys/soundcard.h but a machine/soundcard.h
This had to be changed in quite a lot of files in kmid directory.

kmid/kmidframe.h pthread/mit/pthread.h -> pthread.h
     kmidframe.cpp, kmidclient.cpp sys/soundcard.h -> machine/soundcard.h
     player/midiout.cpp dtto
	    main.cc track.cc midfile.cc midistat.cc player.cc 


Also, I could not compile several files because of undefined ulong type.
I had to change dattypes.h - uncomment //#define ulong unsigned long

And kdegraphics required gmake, did not work with regular make (FreeBSD 2.2.1)


    These are problems I've solved. There are some other I did not solve
(among them the one the KDE seems a bit slow to me, on my poor little
P75)
    When I try to start kaudioserver (after I fixed the coredump problem
caused by fclose(NULL) as described earlier), I get a message:
(null): Undefined symbol "_ftok" called from kaudioserver:/usr/local/kde/lib/libmediatool.so.0.7 at 0x801d150

I'm using gcc version 2.7.2.1

ldd `which kaudioserver`
/usr/local/kde/bin/kaudioserver:
        -lmediatool.0 => /usr/local/kde/lib/libmediatool.so.0.7
(0x801a000)
        -lc.3 => /usr/lib/libc.so.3.0 (0x8020000)
        -lkdeui.0 => /usr/local/kde/lib/libkdeui.so.0.10 (0x808a000)
        -lkdecore.0 => /usr/local/kde/lib/libkdecore.so.0.11 (0x80e9000)
        -lqt.1 => /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so.1.31 (0x8126000)
        -lX11.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1 (0x820b000)
        -lXext.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.1 (0x82a1000)
        -lg++.4 => /usr/lib/libg++.so.4.0 (0x82aa000)
        -lstdc++.2 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.0 (0x82e6000)
        -lm.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2.0 (0x831c000)

    Don't know what this could be caused by.


	Hope I help the KDE project by this bug-report.

		Should you need any further info about my system or how
are some other libraries compiled, feel free to email me.

			Vladimir Mencl
			vlada at freebsd.cz