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Port details

chinese/gcin 2.9.4

Traditional Chinese input utility in X

Port info

Maintainer
vanilla@FreeBSD.org
Packages
latest: 2.9.4
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 2.9.4 · 9377490ef0
Quarterly
2026Q4: 2.9.4
WWW
https://hyperrate.com/dir.php?eid=67
Links
cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data

Install

Package
# pkg install zh-gcin
installs 2.9.4 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 2.9.4
Port
# cd /usr/ports/chinese/gcin && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/chinese/gcin config  # change options first
Size
4.9 MiB download · 18 MiB installed
Depends on
accessibility/at-spi2-core 2.60.4, devel/gettext-runtime 1.0_1, devel/glib20 2.88.3,2, ftp/curl 8.23.0, graphics/cairo 1.18.2,3, graphics/gdk-pixbuf2 2.44.1, print/harfbuzz 14.6.0, x11-toolkits/gtk30 3.24.52, x11-toolkits/pango 1.57.1, x11/libX11 1.8.14,1, x11/libXext 1.3.7,1, x11/libXtst 1.2.6
License
LGPL21
Options
0 of 1 on in the package
Show the 1 options that are off
ANTHY
pkg-message
Shown after installing
Remember to set these environment varibles (such as your ~/.xinitrc):

  export XMODIFIERS='@im=gcin'
  export GTK_IM_MODULE=gcin

  # Finally, to start the GCIN input method daemon, use command:
  exec gcin &

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 162.9.4✗–
FreeBSD 152.9.42.9.4–
FreeBSD 142.9.4✗2.9.4

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 152.9.4✗–
FreeBSD 142.9.4✗2.9.4

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 2.9.4.

Fixed (0)

No VuXML entries for this package.

Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

None.

Commits (178)

Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.9.3
Upgrade to 0.9.3.

PR:		ports/80651
Submitted by:	chinsan <chinsan.at.mail2000.com.tw>
Approved by:	maintainer
238f87c7eb
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.9.2
- fix setpgrp bug - update to 0.9.2

PR:		ports/80398
Submitted by:	chinsan <chinsan_at_mail2000.com.tw>
Approved by:	maintainer
bc16950b05
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.9.1
Fix pkg-plist.

Obtained from:	kris@
ac3182e27a
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.9.1
1: upgrade to 0..1. 2: fix distinfo.

Submitted by:	chinsan <chinsan@mail2000.com.tw>
Approved by:	maintainer
6f19306a9a
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.9.0
Upgrade to 0.9.0.

Submitted by:	chinsan <chinsan_at_mail2000.com.tw>
Approved by:	maintainer
075a3f6516
Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 0.8.9
- Update to 0.8.9

PR:		ports/78996
Submitted by:	Chin-San Huang <chinsan@mail2000.com.tw>
Approved by:	statue <statue@netlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> (maintainer)
64d7335deb
Yen-Ming Lee (leeym) · 0.8.8_1
- add missing file and directories
c3e5eeb77c
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.8.8_1
s/setgrp/setpgrp/, bump version.

Submitted by:	chinsan <chinsan@mail2000.com.tw>
Approved by:	maintainer
ff1dcebb07
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.8.8
Upgrade to 0.8.8.

Approved by:	maintainer
39765ab7a3
Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus) · 0.8.7_2
Bump PORTREVISION to chase the glib20 shared lib version change.
b3458f652e
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.8.7_1
Add a patch for utf8-edit.

Submitted by:	chinsan <chinsan@mail2000.com.tw>
9e86486024
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.8.7
Upgrade to 0.8.7.

Approved by:	maintainer
51a7a0a44d
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.8.4_1
Add a patch for gcin-setup "Help" button.

Submitted by:	chinsan <chinsan@mail2000.com.tw>
6fbf57e337
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.8.4
Upgrade to 0.8.4.

Approved by:	maintainer
380c9f4d90
Sergey Matveychuk (sem) · 0.5.3
- Pass maintainership to submitter

PR:		ports/75730
Submitted by:	statue(at)freebsd.netlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw
dc769a34d1
Yen-Ming Lee (leeym) · 0.5.3
- update to 0.5.3

Noticed by:	kris
10a5227ab0
Yen-Ming Lee (leeym) · 0.5.1
- update to 0.5.1 - utilize DATADIR - cosmetic fixes
6cc125c386
Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 0.5.0
- Update to 0.5.0
a904387d02
Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus) · 0.4.9_1
Bump PORTREVISIONS for all ports that depend on atk or pango to ease in the big upgrade.
46a4d69571
Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 0.4.9
- Update to 0.4.9
e0c51db081
Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 0.4.7
- Update to 0.4.7, old distfile was removed from master site

Reported by:	pointyhat via kris
3aa0bdf78a
Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 0.4.5
- Update to 0.4.5

PR:		ports/72633
Submitted by:	Kuang-che Wu <kcwu@csie.org>
44904a3e84
Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 0.3.1
- Update to 0.3.1

PR:		ports/72038
Submitted by:	Charlie & <yinjieh@csie.nctu.edu.tw>
a264ff6850
Kris Kennaway (kris) · 0.2.4
Increase USE_GCC to 3.4 for those ports which compile with it.

Approved by:	portmgr
84e8d56ed5
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.2.4
Upgrade to 0.2.4.
55de4dc711
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.2.1
Upgrade to 0.2.1.

PR:		ports/70575
Submitted by:	statue <statue@freebsd.netlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw>
bd6a25cc84
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.2.0
update to 0.2.0

PR:		ports/69909
Submitted by:	statue <statue@netlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw>
f7ce583389
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.1.9
Add gcin 0.1.9, a triditional chinese input utility in X.

PR:		ports/69530
Submitted by:	Shen Chuan-Hsing
b4e7eef7bd