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I'm running Devuan Ceres, which is basically equivalent to Debian sid. Here's the package that provides that library: $ dpkg-query -S /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgtk2.0-0:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 So you need to make sure you have package libgtk2.0-0 i...

I found that one of my Devuan systems actually does play the sounds! I compared installed packages, and adding all the different sound-related-sounding packages did not help. Running FreeFileSync with strace and grepping for openat showed that /dev/dsp does not exist on the system without FreeFileSy...

The .desktop files are a xdg spec , and not every desktop environment uses them. Do you know what window manager or desktop environment you use? Regular Ubuntu uses Gnome (or Unity, for the older ones), Kubuntu uses KDE, and so on. But pretty much every main DE that Ubuntu would offer would support ...

I don't have exact specifics about Ubuntu, but it will probably be a matter of right-clicking a suitable application .desktop file, and selecting "Add to favorites" or similar. The best way to arrange this, is to write a freefilesync.desktop file! You can even set a file up in a location t...

That is an excellent question. I know nothing about compiling on Windows, or with Visual Studio. Are gcc and GNU make available for Windows? Check https://preshing.com/20141108/how-to-install-the-latest-gcc-on-windows/ maybe.

I ended up reverting to devtoolset-7 and -std=c++17, and commenting out the "#include <charconv>" and then it can all compile...

If you need to set exact variables for a cron job, it is probably best to make a separate script that runs FreeFileSync with the variables. So, a script named /home/homers/bin/run-my-backup.sh #!/bin/sh export DISPLAY=:10.0 /home/homers/Software/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync /home/homers/Documents/data2...

Sudo differentiates between running a command, and running a command with parameters. You could set your sudoers this way: homers ALL = NOPASSWD: env DISPLAY=:10.0 /home/homers/Software/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync * The asterisk at the end means you can use any additional parameters on the exact comma...

Distro: CentOS 7 Using gcc-8 from devtoolset-8 from "sclo-rh" repository. Since FreeFileSync 10.17, my compilation fails. I am unable to find any useful information on the Internet about the exact failure. make: Entering directory '/usr/src/freefilesync/10.18-build/FreeFileSync/Source' mkd...

I have begun my packaging efforts for CentOS and Fedora. It appears that for CentOS 7 and 8 and Fedora 29 do not have c++2a even when CentOS is using devtoolset-8. I think I will have to revert the use of std::erase_if to the previously-included zen::eraseIf. Would you please consider leaving that f...

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Ubuntu has started offering snap packages as the main method to install certain applications, particularly Google Chrome. The first time a snap is run, it has to download and/or initialize it, which sounds suspiciously like the 45 second delay you describe. I thought that was only for the very first...

MySQL generally doesn't handle well if something else is manipulating the file contents. I hope you are stopping the db before reading/writing to the content directories with FreeFileSync or any other tool.

It should be possible to replace the icons in your own installation. The Icons.zip file stores the icons by name. You can make a custom icon and replace the relevant named icon in Icons.zip.

In my personal archives of previously installed systems I've got a few exe files. Will any of these suffice? FreeFileSync_5.15_Windows_Setup.exe FreeFileSync_6.13_Windows_Setup.exe FreeFileSync_6.3_Windows_Setup.exe FreeFileSync_6.7_Windows_Setup.exe FreeFileSync_7.4_Windows_Setup.exe FreeFileSync_v...

How do you feel about FlatPak? https://github.com/flathub/org.freefilesync.FreeFileSync

I don't know how to use or install a flatpak, but somebody has been maintaining one, for the most part.

I realize it takes a lot of work, but perhaps the filter could be modified to allow any internal links? The fellow was trying to link to another post on this forum.

Thank you, thank you! I for one didn't know you were using a master branch of wxWidgets. That does explain a few things. I always use the regular rpm or dpkg release of wxgtk and everything else that is available for the particular platforms. I don't know if I want to get into the game of chasing up...

Zenju, would you please consider publishing which libs and versions are necessary to compile FreeFileSync for ourselves? Today I discovered the wonderful Bugs.txt which I realize has been there this whole time but I've never read it until now. I observed in the diff from last release that a new curl...

I have a gdb session output (when the binary was compiled and linked with flag "-g"). Please observe I am linking to system libs for all cases except for what you bundle in the source release zip file. If you could take the time to look at the gdb session output , maybe you can tell me wha...

I am not linking to SDL2 at all! I have experimented with installing libwxgtk-media3.0-dev and libwxgtk-media3.0-gtk3-dev and adjusting the linkflags. I adjusted the linkflags to the following: LINKFLAGS = -s -no-pie `wx-config --libs std, aui, media --debug=no` -lz -pthread And rebuilt. Unfortunate...

How about any ideas for how to troubleshoot this? Am I going to need to use gdb? I will have to figure out how to use it (again; I forgot). This isn't a deal-breaker; I love FreeFileSync and will still keep compiling it and using it, but I'm missing the sound functionality in just one distro for my ...

A user typically does not have write access to directories such as C:\ or C:\Users. If you were to run FreeFileSync as adminstrator you might be able to do this. Beware that the entire C:\ would include Windows\ and other directories that could contain inaccessible or temporary data and other things...

FreeFileSync 10.15 adds the sounds back to the Linux release. I try to build the application myself, but I simply cannot get the sounds to work. The released binary works, so I've got enough of pulseaudio or jack or alsa or whatever is technically required. My build of FreeFileSync on Fedora works w...

I could only find one of those package types for FreeFileSync:

FreeFileSync Flatpak

Your usage of "stable" does not seem to match how most other people use the word. "Stable" usually means the software works the same way, over a long period of time, in the same environment. Switching from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04 is definitely a major change through which th...

I publish a third-party build on a COPR (COmmunity PRojects) hosted by the Fedora Project. Instructions adapted from my blog post: https://bgstack15.wordpress.com/2019/03/02/freefilesync-10-9-on-centos-7/ Save down the two repository definition files: curl https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/bgs...

The icons are all stored in Icons.zip. Just make a custom Icons.zip with the same file names inside the zip.

I know nothing about compiling FreeFileSync on Windows, but I build dpkg and rpm packages for myself.

The source code is released in its entirety of the GPL release of the software in the complete tarball. A small group of us have been tracking the history of these releases, and possibly could provide the environment for you to write any patches: https://gitlab.com/opensource-tracking/FreeFileSync