Subj : Re: syncterm
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Andy Alt
Date : Tue Jun 02 2026 12:18 am

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?

 AI> Yes, it wouldn't build for me and I was short of time then to have a
 AI> 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

 AI> Yes, that's the way I have always built syncterm. Usually I also do
 AI> "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

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

 AI> I wish I would have dug in a bit more but I'll do that on the next go
 AI> 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!

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

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

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-Andy
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