I wanted to continue with the C# (Mono) on FreeBSD theme this week. The next C# (Mono) post for FreeBSD is simply running a .C# (Mono) app on FreeBSD. My first thought was this, “I wonder if there is a mono version of Paint.NET?”. Paint.NET is my favorite image editor for Windows. After a quick search, I found the Pintaproject, which is a Mono clone of Paint.NET.

Installing Pinta on FreeBSD

So anyway, the steps for running on FreeBSD are quite simple.  This is a preview of my next FreeBSD Friday post, as I will continue the mono them to promote you app.

1. Follow this post to get mono on FreeBSD.
   http://rhyous.com/2010/12/10/c-mono-on-freebsd/
2. Download the Pinta tarball.
   Note: Get the latest link from here: http://pinta-project.com/download

   $ fetch http://cloud.github.com/downloads/PintaProject/Pinta/pinta-1.3.tar.gz

3. Extract it:

   $ tar -xzf pinta-0.5.tar.gz

4. Change to the directory:

   $ cd pinta-0.5

5. Run configure.

   $ ./configure

Note: I am not entirely sure this is needed, but I did it because it was there.

$ mkdir ~/.tmp

6. Compile the solution as follows:

   $ mdtool build Pinta.sln

   Note: I am not sure why, but “make” didn’t work, though I expected it to.

7. Then as root or with sudo, run make install.

   # make install

8. Make the shell rehash the commands in PATH.

   $ rehash[shell]
   Or depending on your shell...
   [shell]$ hash -r

9. Now just run pinta.

    $ pinta

Pinta is now installed and usable on FreeBSD or PC-BSD.

More information

Pinta installs the following files

/usr/local/bin/pinta
/usr/local/lib/pinta/
/usr/local/lib/pinta/Pinta.Core.dll
/usr/local/lib/pinta/Pinta.Effects.dll
/usr/local/lib/pinta/Pinta.Gui.Widgets.dll
/usr/local/lib/pinta/Pinta.Resources.dll
/usr/local/lib/pinta/Pinta.Tools.dll
/usr/local/lib/pinta/Pinta.exe

The first file, /usr/local/bin/pinta, is a shell script that runs this:

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/mono /usr/local/lib/pinta/Pinta.exe "$@"

The other files are the application. It is a little weird to see .exe and .dll files on FreeBSD, but I’ll get over it.

Adding Pinta to the KDE Menu

I use KDE so I was able to add a menu item for pinta easily. I used the same command that the shell script used:

/usr/local/bin/mono /usr/local/lib/pinta/Pinta.exe "$@"

I found a nice installed logo and used it for the menu icon:
/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/96×96/apps/pinta.png

Pinta in Ports

According to this Problem Report (PR), Pinta will be a port soon, if it isn’t already. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164309