[OpenIndiana-discuss] Creative Suite + Office Suite + CAD on OpenIndiana

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

Hi,
First of all in order to compile say pdfcraft we need to make
https://crates.io/crates/rfd
work properly under Illumos/Solaris. I asked Claude topatch it so it can work properly. Claude gave me a patchwhich I submitted to the maintener of rfd and eventuallymerged the code. So now rfd does inded work properly.Why this is very important? It is because all these appsassume you are using Wayland... 
Second, Claude patched the pdfcraft tree and now itshould compile with and produce a functional binary.I hope to find some free time to patch the github treeand try to compile it with rustc. 
In general, I believe that now that rfd works under Illumos,it should be possible to compile the whole suite. Of course,we need to be good friends with Claude to help us...
Best wishes,
A.S.
PS If someone has more time than me, I can send himthe patch for the source tree and try to compile it.

----------------------Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece



 

    On Monday, October 26, 2026 at 12:59:59 AM GMT+2, gea at napp-it.org <gea at napp-it.org> wrote:  
 
 *AI assisted creation of single binary OpenSource Rust apps, similar to 
well known apps, can be build on any OS*
*https://getartcraft.com/*

Ado.. *Creative Suite* alike (whole suite, similar in handling and features)
Mic...... *Offíce Suite* alike (whole suite, similar in handling and 
features)
Auto.... Au..cad alike (similar in handling and features)

In the end, I expect that these apps become a de facto "must be" set of 
applications on any OS
Maybe artcraft can be forced to reduce some look and feel aspects of the 
clones but they are in the wild now.
*Current state: alphs/beta, ready for first tests, check git issue tracker*

The Artcraft apps are downloadable for Free-BSD, Linux, OSX and Windows, 
not Unix/Ilumos and free to use
Not sure if Artcraft is interested to maintain Illumos

*So the initial question is:*

-How to build on OpenIndiana?
-or Can they be included in the OpenIndiana repository?

*My first steps*

- setup OpenIndiana (16GB RAM+, 64 GB hd, root user can login)
- update to newest: pkg update
- allow ssh root in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (Xterm and nano or mc console 
browser)

Setup eg Windows for AI development use
- create an Anthropic Pro account (around 17 USD/month) and install 
Claude Desktop with filsysteme and desktop commander add ons

or
-install Visual Studio Code + Cline
and
- use a Deepseek account as provider and v4 flash as model (datatransfer 
to China, around 10% of Claude costs with maybe 80% of Claude capabilities!)

or
- use a local inhouse provider, best a Mac mini or studio with 48-256 GB 
RAM for larger models
You can even use OmniOS/OI as a local AI provider, see my Llama build 
script at https://www.napp-it.org/s3/illumos/

- download plink and pscp eg to c:\opt
- configure pw less plink ssh to OpenIndiana (key in 
/root/.ssh/authorized_keys, ask AI foe howto)

- ask AI to connect Openindiana as root and start (or create) a 
buldscript eg for wordcraft via bash
you can use my wordcraft buildscript as a starter,

My *buldscript *example can be run on a new OpenIndiana setup as root in 
/root via bash, eg *bash ./build_wordcraft.sh* and it
- checks if started via bash and checks resources
- adds needed build packages
- clones wordcraft Rust sources
- start build process (can run for quite a long time with logs in 
/root/wordcraft-build/)

*My build scripts and a Wordcraft binary see *
https://www.napp-it.org/s3/illumos/

######################################################################
On errors, ask AI to fix them, a buld process needs several build
sessions to complete due missing Rust modules and workarounds.

Expect a few hours to finish builds for a single application like 
Wordcraft or Photocraft
######################################################################

optionally:
Create a Mate menu Artcraft (ask AI)
Build WebAssembly apps (they run in a browser instead on OS, ask AI)
wordcraft-cli: command line file converter (builds automatically)


#############################################################################
*WordCraft for illumos (OpenIndiana), built from source by 
build_wordcraft.sh*
#############################################################################
Start:      ./wordcraft            (GUI, in the MATE session at the screen)
             ./wordcraft-cli --help (command line, no display needed)
Install:    download and uncompress .zip
             copy Wordcraft folder to its final place (for example 
/opt/artcraft), then:   sh ./install.sh setup
             (repairs permissions, creates the desktop starter and, as 
root, the menu entry Artcraft > WordCraft).
             Best transfer: copy the .tar.gz or .zip itself to the 
machine and unpack it there (keeps the permissions).
Needs:      OpenIndiana with X11 and Mesa/EGL (x11/library/libx11, 
libxcb, libxkbcommon, libxcursor, libxi, libxrandr,
             libxrender, mesa, fontconfig); no Wayland and no GPU driver 
required (software rendering works).
Note: *pre-alpha software*; work on copies of your documents - while I 
build Wordcraft 0.10, a new update to 0.11 arrived


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