Drawterm

Official page.

Code.

Linux

For audio to work under Linux without /dev/dsp, one can use sndio. Install it with your favorite package manager, run sndiod, modify Make.unix: change AUDIO=unix to AUDIO=sndio and add -lsndio to LDADD. Run make CONF=unix. Sound should work now.

Since 9front is supposed to be used with three-button mouse, sometimes X11 (or Wayland) gets in the way of that, especially on Thinkpads, by emulating mouse wheel scroll with the middle trackpad button. It is advised to completely disable it. With sway input * scroll_button disable needs to be added to the configuration. With X11 xinput has to be used to disable mouse wheel emulation.

OpenBSD

Run or add to your .xinitrc xinput set-prop "/dev/wsmouse" "WS Pointer Wheel Emulation" 0 to disable mouse wheel emulation.

Android

Install Termux using F-Droid, then do:

   pkg install unstable-repo && apt upgrade
   pkg install x11-repo build-essential libx11 xorgproto git binutils
   git clone git://git.9front.org/plan9front/drawterm
   cd drawterm
   make CONF=unix -j4

At this point you have a functional ./drawterm that you can run with -G to skip graphics.

/mnt/term/root/data/data/com.termux/files/home is where your Termux local files are exposed.

Windows

Step -3: set your $PATH right

Make.win32 prefixes the toolchain program variables with $(MING). Make sure the resulting names match up with toolchian program names.