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[Posix]

Thanks, amraist!
No, my Google-Fu and Search-Fu were weak, as all I came across were people lamenting how EQEmu didn't work in FreeBSD from a few years ago. And that just wouldn't do!
I did not previously find erde's scripts or patches, I used gmake with the default makefiles, which seemed to work with some slight tweaking:

--- world/makefile   2010-08-13 10:39:18.000000000 -0700
+++ world/makefile   2010-08-13 13:39:56.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@

-HCC=$(shell ccache -V 2>/dev/null)
+HCC=$(shell ccache-swig -V 2>/dev/null)
 ifneq (,$(findstring version,$(HCC)))
-       CC=ccache gcc
+       CC=ccache-swig gcc
 else
        CC=gcc
 endif
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 OUT=-o
 LINKOUT=-o
 NOLINK=-c
-DFLAGS=-DDEBUG=5 -DEQDEBUG=5 -DSHAREMEM -DCATCH_CRASH -DNO_PIDLOG -DFIELD_ITEMS -DIRC -Di386 -DAPP_OPCODE_SIZE=2
+DFLAGS=-DDEBUG=5 -DEQDEBUG=5 -DSHAREMEM -DCATCH_CRASH -DNO_PIDLOG -DFIELD_ITEMS -DIRC -DAPP_OPCODE_SIZE=2 -DFREEBSD -D__x86_64__
 WFLAGS=-Wall -Wuninitialized -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual -Wcomment -Wcast-align -Wno-deprecated

 PERL_FLAGS=$(shell perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts)
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@
 MYSQL_FLAGS=$(shell mysql_config --cflags)
 MYSQL_LIB=$(shell mysql_config --libs)

-COPTS=$(WFLAGS) -g -march=i686 -O -pthread -pipe -I../common/SocketLib \
+COPTS=$(WFLAGS) -ggdb -march=native -pthread -pipe -I../common/SocketLib \
   -DFX -D_GNU_SOURCE -DINVERSEXY -DWORLD $(DFLAGS) $(MYSQL_FLAGS) $(PERL_FLAGS)
-LINKOPTS=$(COPTS) -rdynamic -L. -lstdc++ -lm -lz -ldl \
+LINKOPTS=$(COPTS) -rdynamic -L. -lstdc++ -lm -lz \
   $(MYSQL_LIB) $(PERL_LIB)

 all: world

pretty much the same change to the zone and eqlauncher makefiles.
Then I made a couple changes to the code which seemed to get it to compile and run allright:

--- common/Mutex.cpp     2010-08-12 10:39:24.000000000 -0700
+++ common/Mutex.cpp   2010-08-12 17:35:08.000000000 -0700
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 #if defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(__APPLE__)
        pthread_mutexattr_settype(&attr, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE);
 #else
-       pthread_mutexattr_settype(&attr, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE_NP);
+       pthread_mutexattr_settype(&attr, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE);
 #endif
        pthread_mutex_init(&CSMutex, &attr);
        pthread_mutexattr_destroy(&attr);

and a curious case with how money is handled:

--- zone/client.cpp      2010-08-12 10:40:42.000000000 -0700
+++ zone/client.cpp      2010-08-12 17:50:28.000000000 -0700
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
 #include <sys/socket.h>
 #include <netinet/in.h>
 #include "../common/unix.h"
-#define abs64 abs
 #endif

 extern volatile bool RunLoops;
@@ -2017,7 +2016,7 @@
                copperpp -= copper;
                if(copperpp <= 0)
                {
-                       copper = abs64(copperpp);
+                       copper = copperpp * -1;
                        m_pp.copper = 0;
                }
                else
@@ -2029,7 +2028,7 @@
                silver -= copper;
                if(silver <= 0)
                {
-                       copper = abs64(silver);
+                       copper = silver * -1;
                        m_pp.silver = 0;
                }
                else
@@ -2044,7 +2043,7 @@

                if(gold <= 0)
                {
-                       copper = abs64(gold);
+                       copper = gold * -1;
                        m_pp.gold = 0;
                }
                else

since the value of the money variable is already known to be below 0 (negative), and I'm not seeing anywhere in there you could end up with an imaginary number, I just flip the sign instead of going through the trouble of getting an absolute value.

I'll be pouring over those patches, see how it stacks up to what I was muddling through

[amraist]

The bsd.patch included with erde's autobuild scripts will fix the odd coin issue you are having, and also the mutex fix. The scripts may be out of date with the current svn, but its pretty simple to fix them. You just have to track down a new file or two and add it to one of the files included.