freebsd

README.md

@@ -18,19 +18,21 @@ sudo dnf install SDL2
 
 # Build Instructions
 
-## On Linux
+## On Linux / Unix
 
 Install the [libSDL2](http://libsdl.org/download-2.0.php) runtime and SDL2 
 development packages from your package distributor.  On Fedora, this 
 is the `SDL2` and `SDL2-devel` packages.
 
-```
+```sh
 git clone --recurse-submodules https://git.topost.net/alistair/space_game.git
 ```
 
+(if you forget `--recurse-submodules` you can use, `git submodule init`, `git submodule update`.)
+
 ### For Linux
 
-```
+```sh
 make clean
 make target=linux
 ```
@@ -39,18 +41,32 @@ make target=linux
 
 You have to have mingw and the mingw libsdl library (I think).
 
-```
+```sh
 sudo dnf install mingw64-SDL2 mingw64-SDL2_image mingw64-SDL2_ttf mingw64-winpthreads
 ```
 
 Run setup.sh to download the SDL2 static libraries and `SDL2.dll`.
 
-```
 ./setup.sh
 make clean
 make target=windows
 ```
 
+## FreeBSD
+
+You need to download the header files and put them in the source folder, with
+the folder name SDL2. You also need the `sdl2` and `gmake` packages.
+
+Something like this:
+
+```sh
+cd /tmp && wget https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.12.zip && unzip SDL2-2.0.12.zip
+mv /tmp/SDL2-2.0.12/include $source_dir/SDL2
+pkg install sdl2 gmake
+cd $source_dir
+gmake
+```
+
 ### With debug flags
 
 Append `debug=true` to the make command.