FreeBSD build with plugins fails

[link2xt]

There are multiple issues, starting with configure script.

Shebang in configure script is #!/bin/bash. On FreeBSD, bash is installed in /usr/local/bin/bash. It should be replaced with either #!/usr/bin/env bash or #!/bin/sh.

Then, getopt utility is used to parse long options. FreeBSD getopt does not support long options. Getopt with GNU-style options can be installed from ports, but it is installed in /usr/local/bin/getopt which goes after /usr/bin/getopt in PATH by default.

After replacing getopt with /usr/local/bin/getopt, I can run configure --help and such.

Then, even if I disable OMEMO plugin, it fails with /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcrypt, so I have to add GCrypt to plugins/omemo/CMakeLists.txt.

Now I get error error: Package 'libgcrypt' not found in specified Vala API directories or GObject-Introspection GIR directories, don't know how to fix it.

[link2xt]

PR #335 seems related

[link2xt]

With PR #350 and disabling all plugins it builds.

[nwhitehorn]

A patch that fixes the CMake problems is at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/dino.diff.

[link2xt]

@nwhitehorn Thanks, works for me. Will you submit a PR?

[bodems]

I also confirm that it builds now on FreeBSD 12. Thanks for your patch @nwhitehorn !

[Echolon]

@link2xt, @bodems This thread can be closed?

[link2xt]

@Echolon the patch hasn't been merged into this repository it seems. Do you expect freebsd users to keep patching the source?

I have checked, plugins/signal-protocol/CMakeLists.txt has not changed.

[Echolon]

Hi link2xt,
no expectations, just asking.

[link2xt]

A patch that fixes the CMake problems is at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/dino.diff.

Could you merge the linked patch first?

I don't have freebsd around anymore, so can't test, but the patch does reasonable things: replaces some hardcoded library names with variables.