rxvt / urxvt for PiCore?

[PDP-8]

Unless I'm missing it somehow, is there an rxvt/urxvt terminal port for piCore?

I tried looking for sources to compile myself, but I'm never really sure if I'm finding the latest version, or if there is a problem with it on ARM?

And not being the sharpest tool in the shed, the stuff I do build ends up too big usually with make defconfigs, not knowing which stuff to leave in or out.

Sure would appreciate it if anyone has a round-to-it handy.

[andyj]

Here's a link to a build script that works on x86 and x86_64. You might need to check the dependency names as those are not always consistent between platforms, and the compiler flags.

http://www.asjohnson.com/tinycorelinux/8.x/scripts/old/build-rxvt.sh

Here's a link to the source:

http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.22.tar.bz2

I found some xft patches that I'm trying out for x86_64 to fix some unicode rendering problems. Let me know if you want to try those out and I'll bundle them up.

[PDP-8]

Thanks Andy!  That's really helpful.

I'll give them a shot.  I'm getting a Pi3 tomorrow, so if it takes too long on a pi2 I'll let you know.

This will help dust off some cobwebs - I'm mostly a configure / make / make install kind of guy with little experience standing on the shoulders of others.

The last time I got heavily into this was compiling kernels on Crux Linux for PPC many moons ago.  Hope I haven't forgotten too much.

I'll let you guys know how it goes..

[PDP-8]

Ugh - think I'll have to leave this to the professionals.   Although I used to do this 12 years ago, I think I had a mental head crash somewhere in there.

On the pi, for some reason I borked my system to the point that it won't grab all the dependencies of the compile environment like compiletc.tcz, so I tried to do it manually from the apps-list listing.  Make doesn't dig it.

Tried cross compiling on the X86 box, and it too was throwing up errors.

I'll figure out what I did wrong, but want to thank you again for the source and build script.  A year from now I'll probably laugh at my errors, but for now I'll leave it in the hands of the more experienced crew....

[Juanito]

rxvt(-unicode) posted

[PDP-8]

Thank you so much!

Works great.  Even better after a little configuration for my tastes.

Local issues I need to figure out:  Download from Apps gui indicated a failure for default OnBoot.  But it was indeed in the system, so I had to use tce-load -i rxvt.tcz to load it and manually afterwards and also add it to my onboot.lst file.

Does not seem to pick up on the rpi's built-in Luxi TTF system font like it does on X86.

I probably fat-fingered something and will get to the bottom of it.  But, sure is nice to have so thanks again.