Sunday, May 17, 2026

Re: unbreak misc/rocrail

Hi,

I was pointed out by ian@, that the diff was missing the removal of all the patches. 

attached version includes that missing piece.


Sebastian

On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 3:18 PM Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:
checking in again, would love to re-enable misc/rocrail



On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 10:04 PM Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:
Hi,

misc/rocrail was marked BROKEN about 3 years ago, due to the wxWidgets update that happened at that time.
Finally I got around looking at it. I had to realize, that since the version we have in ports, a few years later, Rocrail went closed source.
Found as it seems the last GPL open source on GH, and forked it, to be able to address the wxWidget issues. While there, fix compilation issues, and a couple of other smaller bugs I came across while testing.

Even though it's old, this, now again, works quite well for me. Tested with a train on main track as well as programming track.
Also while testing, I tested other model railroad related ports. I found that for some reason, misc/srcpd is quite unstable with my OpenDCC Z1. But enabling the srcpd daemon in Rocrail, misc/spdrs60 and misc/dtcltiny using this srcpd daemon, work like a charm.

Are there still any digital model railroaders around?
Testing/feedback etc. would be welcome. 

At least for me, this re-enables model railroading on OpenBSD.

cheers,
Sebastian

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