Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

One of the nagging issues was getting nxserver working on my FreeBSD system. The procedure should be to install 'net/nxserver' and 'net/freenx', but the problem is that 'net/nxserver' can't be built on a 64-bit system.

So, taking a page from 32bit Wine on FreeBSD/amd64, I built 'net/nxserver' in my /compat/i386 chroot, with "make package clean".

I then installed the package into my 64-bit system, so that I could build and install freenx.

Of course that didn't quite work....had to overwrite the nxserver binaries with various shell scripts to call the /compat/i386 versions.

IE:

/usr/local/NX/bin/nxagent

Shell

	#!/bin/sh
	#NXAGENT - Version 2.1.0
	export LD_32_LIBRARY_PATH=/compat/i386/usr/local/NX/lib:/compat/i386/lib:/compat/i386/usr/lib:/compat/i386/usr/local/lib
	exec /compat/i386/usr/local/NX/bin/nxagent "$@"

/usr/local/NX/bin/nxdesktop

Shell

	#!/bin/sh
	export LD_32_LIBRARY_PATH=/compat/i386/usr/local/NX/lib:/compat/i386/lib:/compat/i386/usr/lib:/compat/i386/usr/local/lib
	exec /compat/i386/usr/local/NX/bin/nxdesktop "$@"

l, since nxloadconfig does a "string $PATH_BIN/nxagent" to find out what version you have. So, I copied the string into the file.

And, then after lots and lots of troubleshooting, I eventually found the last hang up....

Shell

Though maybe the line above was meant to be "$ENABLE_2_0_0_BACKEND" = "1" and eliminating the EXPERIMENTAL rule.

Anyways, it works....

...except that logging into another session of myself was a mess on the tiny screen of my laptop....its not dual 1920x1080 like my main desktop. And, logging out messed up my active desktop session. It apparently killed gvfs, so I couldn't ls my home dir anymore. And, then I killed to much and had to reboot.

Meanwhile...still trying to workout how to get nfsclient to take place after vboxheadless starts, so it can mount NFS filesystems from my VM.