On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:34:20AM -0700, Justin Noor wrote: > Awesome, thank you. I’ll get started with those dependencies. > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 4:04 AM Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2020/06/04 21:04, Justin Noor wrote: > > > Hi @ports, > > > > > > Is there anyone working on FreeCAD? It's not in /usr/ports/cad, and I > > > searched the mailing list and did not find anything fruitful. If not, > > would > > > like to give it a shot if possible - this would be my first port. If > > there > > > is anyone working on it, please let me know how I can contribute. > > > > > > Thank you > > > > I haven't seen any indication that anyone's working on it. There is > > a first attempt in openbsd-wip but it's nowhere near a working port > > (just downloads the distfile and runs cmake which then fails due to > > lack of dependencies) and hasn't been touched after the initial > > addition in 2015. > > > > The starting point is to map out what's needed with the dependencies. > > There's a list at https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Third_Party_Libraries > > which is hopefully up-to-date enough to be useful. Some are available > > in ports already (pkglocate will help find them) - may be a suitable > > version already or may need updating. Others (including OpenCASCADE,
To add to what Stuart said here, it should be possible to get freecad to work with our OpenCASCADE Community Edition in cad/oce. Now, don't ask me what secret sauce needs to be concocted to do so, but in theory, it should work. > > Coin3d, PySide) will need porting first (and some of these will have > > their own chain of dependencies). > > > > -- Tracey Emery
