Building Hercules on non Linux UNIXen

FreeBSD

These notes were made from my experience with FreeBSD 9.1 and 10.2.

You need to install the autoconf and automake packages/ports to be able to run autogen.sh

If you get a message about aclocal missing, you forgot automake.

FreeBSD 11

FreeBSD 11 can be used to build and run Hercules v4.

Hercules-required packages that are included in the base distribution and need not be replaced.

• clang (3.8, can be used to build Hercules)
• grep (GNU)
• m4 (BSD version)
• make (BSD version)
• nawk (BSD version of gawk)
• sed (BSD version)
• perl
• zlib (developer’s libraries and headers)

GNU packages that must be installed; use pkg install to retrieve them from the FreeBSD repository

• automake
• autoconf

Other required packages. All can be installed using pkg install

• git
• rexx-regina
• bzip2
• cmake (installs 3.7.1)

FreeBSD installs perl and rexx in /usr/local, and this has two impacts:

1. bldlvlck fails because it expects perl to be installed in /usr/bin
2. configure fails to find the rexx and bzip2 headers and library because /usr/local/lib is not included in Hercules builds on other than AIX.

The application flex, identified as required by bldlvlck, does not seem to be necessary and need not be installed.