Re: Anyone able to run blender on netbsd-10 amd64?

[mlh%goathill.org@localhost (MLH)]

David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 at 14:58, MLH <mlh%goathill.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > I hadn't noticed that blender was in pkgsrc. I tried to build under
> > pkgsrc-current but it can't build right now due to distfile issues
> > with dependencies.
> 
> blender-4.2.4nb2 seems to build and startup fine on NetBSD-10.1/amd64
> with current pkgsrc. (I know nothing about blender, so I just loaded
> the cube_diorama demo and waited very patiently as it started to
> render... )

I will try again to see if dependencies have been resolved. Thanks

> > FreeCAD 1.0 came out recently and I will offer a bounty for it to
> > be in pkgsrc, buildable under amd64 at least. It appears to be
> > available with FreeBSD.
> >
> > I also would like to offer a bounty for geting PlatformIO (command-line
> > only) under NetBSD as I really need to use that with NetBSD-amd64
> > also and that is also available under FreeBSD. The PlatformIO people
> > indicate they would like to see it available on more platforms.
> 
> Hopefully someone else will speak up on FreeCAD or PlatformIO :)

The PlatformIO installer works on NetBSD-amd64 but it has to have
some NetBSD setup info to start a project. I emailed them and said
the NetBSD-amd64 config would likely be very similar to the FreeBSD
config but haven't heard back from them.

I am hoping someone with knowledge of the difference between FreeBSD
and NetBSD in this case would be able to help them out. I suspect
it might be mainly wrt usb-serial port differences. I will try
emailing them again.

Both FreeCAD and PlatformIO are Python based, so I suspect should
be able to be moved to NetBSD without great difficulty.