First steps
Install FreeBSD 12-RELEASE or FreeBSD 13-RELEASE and install/update your ports tree.
freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install
reboot.
Complete install documentation can be found in the FreeBSD Handbook.
If you plan to install the dependencies from source, fetch the current ports tree and build the portmaster utility:
portsnap fetch extract update
cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster
make -DBATCH install clean
Install packages
Install packages from source
the source packages can be built and installed using the following sequence
portmaster -C -D --no-confirm -y \
x11/xorg \
devel/git \
converters/iconv \
shells/ksh93 \
x11-toolkits/open-motif \
lang/tcl86
textproc/opensp
If you don't want to wade through the many configuration steps and
build with the standard configuration instead, add the -G parameter to
portmaster.
More information about ports and packages can be found in the FreeBSD Handbook Ports chapter. More information about X11 in FreeBSD can also be found in the X11 Chapter in the FreeBSD Handbook.
Install binary packages
To install precompiled binary packages, make the following call
If you wish to track the CDE development branch,
pkg install cde-devel xorg
The development branch is updated monthly though it may be updated more frequently.
Edit /etc/rc.conf
Add to /etc/rc.conf
rpcbind_enable="YES"
inetd_enable="YES"
Reboot
Clone or download the source code
Use the git clone command here:
On most platform you can use HTTPS:
git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/cdesktopenv/code cdesktopenv-code
If that doesn't work (for instance some BSD distros) , use the native git protocol instead
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/cdesktopenv/code cdesktopenv-code
Or download the latest source release:
Note: The source archive will become out of date. When you want the latest code, clone the git repository.
Build CDE
Version 2.5.0 and newer (autoconf)
For the BSD's, you must use gmake, and you must specify the location
of the TCL install directory (the below example assumes TCL v8.6).
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-tcl=/usr/local/lib/tcl8.6 MAKE="gmake"
$ gmake
$ sudo gmake install
Version 2.4.0 and earlier (imake) - deprecated
cd cdesktopenv-code/cde
make World
admin/IntegTools/dbTools/installCDE -s `pwd`
Start CDE
You can now start CDE login manager as root:
/usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -nodaemon
Alternatively, you can start an X session as a normal user:
startx /usr/dt/bin/Xsession
Install dtlogin as Login Manager
Switch to the CDE build directory and copy and enable the rc-file
cp contrib/rc/freebsd/dtlogin /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
echo 'dtlogin_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo "allowed_users=anybody" > /usr/local/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
reboot
https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/FreeBSDBuild/
