OpenBSD Handbook

OpenBSD 7.9 release · amd64 · Generated 2026-09-09

icon-interp-9.5.1p1-no_x11

programming language with generators, X11 and more

Back to search · Project homepage

Description

Icon is a program language that looks superficially like Pascal, but which supports generators. It also include some very reasonable X11 support. The port has not yet been tested on all architectures. In particular, most will need coexpr support (see openbsd/${ARCH}_coexpr.c and openbsd/define.h), but we can probably steal that from an existing architecture. The graphics picture loader can also be improved to handle gifs, jpeg, png, tiff, along with xpm. The icon compiler is actually no longer supported by the icon project, though it is nice to have it along. The icon variant translators could be rather simply installed. There is a patch floating around for some unix functions support (sockets, mainly) that is crying to be adapted... and which has been integrated into unicon (which is still beta at the moment). There is a no_x11 flavor, that does not require X11 to run.

Package information

Ports path
lang/icon/interp,no_x11
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Marc Espie <espie@openbsd.org>
Categories
lang
Available flavors
no_x11

These are ports metadata. Binary availability depends on the release, architecture and mirror. Build and test dependencies are not an installation checklist.

Direct dependencies

Test

Installing and updating packages · Package details as JSON