Genode Porting Wishlist

Last updated on 2018-01-13

This page contains my personal Genode porting wishlist. As it happens there is a great deal of nice software out there that I would appreciate to have on Genode and where writing a native component would be impractical. From time to time I am going to work off some item on the list or add a new one. Each item includes a coarse list of dependencies and a rough gut assessment of the difficulty (most SDL based stuff tends to be easy-ish) or the current state the porting effort is in.

That being said I am grateful to anyone who wants to join in. If you are interested in working on porting something from this list, please drop me a note at josef.soentgen@genode-labs.com and I would be happy to land a hand. Porting some software is after all a great way to learn about Genode (although writing a native Genode component will you get you more in touch with its inner workings, porting is easily the best “gateway drug”).

Categories:  Amusement    Audio    E-Mail    Graphics    Network    Reader   

Amusement^

• Crimson Fields (SDL) — easy
• drawterm (started) — advanced
• dhewm3 (SDL + OpenGL) — easy
• Frotz (dumb interface (easy) or integrated version (some engineering required))
• FUSE (Spectrum) (SDL) — easy
• ioQuake3 (SDL + OpenGL) — easy
• OpenDUNE (SDL) — easy
• OpenJK (SDL + OpenGL) — easy
• OpenRA (Mono :-/) — nevermind
• RBDOOM-3-BFG (SDL + OpenGL) — easy
• Tesseract (SDL + OpenGL) — easy
• SDL2 (started) — intermediate
• SDL2 image — easy
• SDL2 mixer — easy
• SDL2 ttf — easy
• Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella (SDL2 + boost-filesystem) — easy
• Yamagi Quake II (SDL2 + OpenGL) — easy
• Tyrquake (SDL2) — easy   Thanks to ehmry for enabling libretro's core
• Vice (SDL) — easy
• Wesnoth (boost, SDL2 pango (cairo)) — substantial
• Yabause (SDL, Qt) — easy
• Moonlight (an open source nvidia gamestream client) (libc) — easy but needs front-end

Audio^

• cmus (ncurses + various audio libs, some are available in world) — easy
• LMMS (Qt + fftw3) — substantial
• libopenmt (not much™) — easy
• MilkyTracker (SDL) — easy
• ProTracker (SDL) — easy
• Schism Tracker (SDL) — easy

E-Mail^

• isync (suspended - volunteers?)
• libetpan (not much™) — easyish (maybe look at mailcore2 as well)
• msmtp (suspended - volunteers?)
• Mutt (suspended - volunteers?)
• notmuch (xapian)

Graphics^

• Aseprite (Skia) — nevermind b/c of Skia
• Blender (a bunch of stuff + OpenGL) — substantial
• Wings3D (Erlang) — nevermind

Network^

• libstrophe (not much™) — easy
• Profanity (not much™ + ncurses, libstrophe) — easy
• Transmission BT (w/o GUI not much™) — easyish

Reader^

• FBReader Qt, expat and some others — easy