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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