Introduction

I just discovered SXMO for the Pinephone yesterday and im amazed by it, its excatly how i imagined myself using the Pinephone and even better. I decided to look deeper into it. First of all there is only a prebuilt image for SXMO using PostmarketOS, which is nice, but i really prefer Arch Linux ARM.

first plan of attack

is to get a prebuilt SXMO image into the Danctnix github repository. there is a sxmo-alarm with a nice script to install sxmo from the barebones image, but im not really satisfied with this.

creating the sxmo PKGBUILDs for Arch ARM

As seen here sxmo build all there couple of packages needed for sxmo. i’m starting the progress of creating PKGBUILD files for them.

build dependencies

sudo pacman -S binutils pkgconf fakeroot bc flex bison autoconf

starting off with a simple package sxmo-st

this one was quite easy to do because sxmo developer proycon on irc sent me links to alpine linux repository with all sxmo packages. they use very similar styled APKBUILD files for packaging as Arch, seen here in this sxmo-st APKBUILD. with some help of the APKBUILD reference, PKGBUILD reference and Creating Packages Arch i figured everything out and the only things i had to change were formatting and a couple of package names in makedepends and depends. i removed the line “sed -i ‘/tic/d’ Makefile”i from the prepare function and the subpackages definition, i guess alpine does this because they handle documentation differently.

# Maintainer: dni <office@dnilabs.com>
pkgname=sxmo-st
pkgver=0.8.3.4
pkgrel=0
pkgdesc="St fork for Sxmo UI; supports scrollback, invert, and other patches"
arch=('x86_64' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
url="https://git.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-st"
license=('MIT')
depends=('ncurses')
makedepends=('make' 'fontconfig' 'freetype2' 'libx11' 'libxext' 'libxft')
provides=('st')
source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://git.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-st/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz")
sha512sums=('a4cb72680e070d1703c4359618fa7ed36d5460496ab1320025f89809d7fa5387a6f9aae1e1143b261e57ea5f49d9b71bb68dad7653538b0238d2e50259029190')

build() {
  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
	make
}

package() {
  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
	make install PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR="$pkgdir"
	mkdir -p "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications
	cat > "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications/st.desktop <<-EOF
		[Desktop Entry]
		Name=st
		Comment=st is a simple virtual terminal emulator for X which sucks less
		Exec=st
		Terminal=false
		Type=Application
		Icon=gnome-xterm
		Categories=System;TerminalEmulator;
	EOF
}

building the packages

NOTE: sxmo isnt yet in Pine64-Arch repository so you need to create the below dir and put the PKGBUILD above inside there. for example:

git clone https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch
cd Pine64-Arch/PKGBUILDS/sxmo/smxo-st/
makepkg -s

next PKGBUILD sxmo-dwm

same as sxmo-st

# Maintainer: dni <office@dnilabs.com>
pkgname=sxmo-dwm
pkgver=6.2.12
pkgrel=0
pkgdesc="Dwm fork for Sxmo UI; supports volume-key hotkeys, swallow, keyboard, among other patches"
arch=('x86_64' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
url="https://git.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-dwm"
license=('MIT')
depends=('xorg-server')
makedepends=('make' 'freetype2' 'libx11' 'libxinerama' 'libxft')
provides=('dwm')
source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://git.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-dwm/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz")
sha512sums=('842d93eb51204059e2f10c78dbf61f0239fef176d768b43a4d0b5f39a5ec452546e9fa77bc580a496f57f5a8f90a5576aa59a8964ffb0f86be2e454aec2b27c5')

build() {
  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
	make X11INC=/usr/include/X11 X11LIB=/usr/lib/X11 FREETYPEINC=/usr/include/freetype2
}

package() {
  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
	make PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
}

PKGBUILDs done, whats next?

After sieving through the sxmo-utils, i started thinking about the structure of sxmo and how the scripts are executed and loaded, which lead me into a journey of rethinking my own dotfiles, i’ll talk about that in detail in my next blogpost.

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