Re: Recommend an idiomatic simple C library port?

libinotify is not a typical example because it installs to a non-standard dir to try to avoid being picked up without explicit configuration in other ports

I've just looked through a bunch of libraries and struggling to find something I'd suggest as a good starting point, many have something a bit atypical - I'd start from ports/infrastructure/Makefile.template

generally for a library we'd like to have some other software intended for adding to ports that uses it, rather than just adding it standalone 

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On 26 January 2026 18:47:12 "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@freebsd.org> wrote:

Hi Paul,

hope you're doing well.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 09:47:19AM -0500, Paul Wisehart wrote:

Hi!,

I am wanting to make a port for a C lib.

(specifically mtemplate in this case.)

I am new to porting.  Can someone recommend

a similar existing port to copy off of?

Something that is just basic no dependency

C code, that is turned into a system lib.

There're many libraries ported into OpenBSD available in

the devel subdirectory of OpenBSD ports tree,

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/devel/, and one of

those is libinotify, so you may want to take a look on

that here:

- https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/devel/libinotify/, or

- https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/devel/libinotify/

It's also recommended to read OpenBSD Porter's Handbook,

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/index.html, describes

porting, build, cleaning and other related staff for a port.

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

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Sergey A. Osokin

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