df on FreeBSD

I thought it would be a lot of fun to run Dwarf Fortress on the Pinebook Pro. Take this deceptively CPU intensive game, run it via a amd64->arm64 translation layer on a mediocre SOC.

df has a native Linux build which is nice to avoid too much translation (WINE is never fun to configure), so this seem straight forward. I will save you the details, but this resulted in a Pinebook Pro with neither X or WiFi drivers installed.

apt is a hell of a drug.

FreeBSD has as Linux Compat layer , maybe getting df running on FreeBSD would be relatively easy?

No.

The packaged CentOS layer seems to be EOL and I'm not sure what is coming next. I wasn't able to figure out easily how to get SDL2_image to be picked up. There are still lots of linker references to libmd 6 floating around and that was enough hassle.

Searching packages I stumbled onto this gem, linux-dwarffortress .

Is running df on FreeBSD easy?

Yes!

$ sudo pkg install linux-dwarffortress
$ dwarffortress

It is version 0.47.05 from back in 2021, but that is good enough for me.

I will try box64 on Linux when the Pocket Reform eventually shows up.