How did things work out for you?? :)

Alan Ianson wrote to Andy Alt <=-

I have always had syncterm installed. It has always built and run for
me even on the console but I haven't had success building syncterm here
without xorg and friends.

On your LFS system?

Yes, it wouldn't build for me and I was short of time then to have a closer look.

What if you do this? (or is this what you did?)

Download syncterm-1.1-src.tgz from the official project page
Extract the source
From the root of the source directory, cd to 'src/syncterm'
enter in 'make RELEASE=1

Yes, that's the way I have always built syncterm. Usually I also do
"sudo make install" when make is done and I am good to go.

That should build the syncterm binary in

src/syncterm/gcc.linux.x64.exe.release

Yes. When I build syncterm an a machine with out xorg or SDL it runs
fine from the console. It doesn't have any desktop support (which is
also nice) but works fine from the console.

For me, it's not linking to any xorg or SDL2 libs:

ldd syncterm
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe9cfce000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f550d9b8000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f550d9b3000)
libncursesw.so.6 => /lib64/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f550d975000) libtinfo.so.6 => /lib64/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007f550d944000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f550d7fc000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f550d7db000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f550d5fa000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f550d9cf000)

Though I didn't do that in LFS, I did it in the slackware-build-essential docker container

(https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/andy5995/slackware-build-essential/g
neral)

I wish I would have dug in a bit more but I'll do that on the next go around.

I have xorg and friends installed now so I'm sure I can get it done but
minicom is working for me anyway.

Nice to hear!

Yep, I like minicom. I am about to get xmms installed. It needs an
older version of glib installed. The source and a bunch of patches live
in the slackware tree so I'll go grab it from there and try my luck.

I usually use vlc or audacious but xmms is nice too.

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-Andy
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How did things work out for you?? :)

I have Syncterm 1.7 running without issues on the desktop and I see deuce is building a new version. Pre releases of 1.9 can be found at ..

https://syncterm.bbsdev.net

I am not sure where my issue of Syncterm not building without X installed is at these days. I think my LFS might be too lean and mean.

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