FreeBSD support?

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FreeBSD

How did you attempt to install or upgrade?

Tried to install bun on a https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net server, which I now realize is running FreeBSD. Unfortunately it looks like bun only supports Linux.

What do you see instead?

ELF interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 not found, error 2
Abort trap

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FreeBSD support would be great.

I do also vote for FreeBSD support :)

yes i'd love to see bun supporting freebsd

Me too!

FreeBSD-support would be great!

Would love to see that too. hostpoint (big player in switzerland) runs entirely on FreeBSD.

MeeToo

Latest Zig 0.13 has an official FreeBSD release now (last active one was 0.11) ... so it should be 1 step easier

Will have a look at whats involved in building bun from source, and adding a precompiled bun to bsd's pkg / ports

I see that zig 0.12.1 is available as a FreeBSD package.
If someone want to help, we can prepare a new port and I can commit it into the FreeBSD ports repository.

I currently work on making zig 0.13.0 available:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=279604

after the mainainer accepted my PR, I will commit it.

But if I try to compile bun on FreeBSD I just see:

cmake .
-- Configuring Bun
-- Set CMAKE_VERSION: 3.30.3
-- Set CMAKE_COMMAND: /usr/local/bin/cmake
-- Set CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_NAME: FreeBSD
-- Set CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR: amd64
CMake Error at cmake/Globals.cmake:77 (message):
  Unsupported CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_NAME: "FreeBSD"
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake/Globals.cmake:99 (unsupported)
  CMakeLists.txt:13 (include)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

so there is maybe some additional work from the bun repository required.

Can anyone help here?

I currently work on making zig 0.13.0 available: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=279604

after the mainainer accepted my PR, I will commit it.

But if I try to compile bun on FreeBSD I just see:
cmake .
-- Configuring Bun
-- Set CMAKE_VERSION: 3.30.3
-- Set CMAKE_COMMAND: /usr/local/bin/cmake
-- Set CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_NAME: FreeBSD
-- Set CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR: amd64
CMake Error at cmake/Globals.cmake:77 (message):
  Unsupported CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_NAME: "FreeBSD"
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake/Globals.cmake:99 (unsupported)
  CMakeLists.txt:13 (include)

looks like it's just "ifdef" guard against all the BSD systems

Is there any interest here that the project team help to remove these "ifdefs" so I can test a build?
It can also be a specific branch or a patch I can apply on top of a released version.

@mfechner

@mfechner did you try anything yet?

any updates on this?

Since you already support Linux should not be that hard to make it run on FreeBSD🙏

@lwhsu

I got Bun building and running on FreeBSD 15 amd64, based on @lwhsu's claude/freebsd-support branch with ~150 lines of additional patches. Build script and patches here: https://github.com/8ff/bun-freebsd

I got Bun building and running on FreeBSD 15 amd64, based on @lwhsu's claude/freebsd-support branch with ~150 lines of additional patches. Build script and patches here: https://github.com/8ff/bun-freebsd

Great, thank you! Can you add a proper port now?

I got Bun building and running on FreeBSD 15 amd64, based on @lwhsu's claude/freebsd-support branch with ~150 lines of additional patches. Build script and patches here: https://github.com/8ff/bun-freebsd

Great, thank you! Can you add a proper port now?

A proper port is definitely the end goal, but it's a bit early - these patches still need to be reviewed and merged upstream first. Once Bun has official or semi-official FreeBSD support baked in, a port would make a lot more sense.

A proper port is definitely the end goal, but it's a bit early - these patches still need to be reviewed and merged upstream first. Once Bun has official or semi-official FreeBSD support baked in, a port would make a lot more sense.

Or we can just put the patches in the port for now and remove them when they're upstreamed, which is what FreeBSD ports usually do.

A proper port is definitely the end goal, but it's a bit early - these patches still need to be reviewed and merged upstream first. Once Bun has official or semi-official FreeBSD support baked in, a port would make a lot more sense.

Or we can just put the patches in the port for now and remove them when they're upstreamed, which is what FreeBSD ports usually do.

I will look into this

Here for the bun on FreeBSD!

@lwhsu

FreeBSD ports tree could have e.g. www/bun-devel with local patches if somebody wants to have a crack at this. I think both @lwhsu and @dch will be happy to help shepherd this in.

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Still doesn't support ffi on freebsd.

The shell script at https://bun.sh/install has not been updated to detect and work correctly with FreeBSD.
The main README has not had any additions to mention that FreeBSD is now an official platform, nor how to build for it.
edit: this last one was my fault, I should've read the cpu requirements

As far as I can tell, the x64 zipfiles in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/tag/bun-v1.3.14 were not built with the correct architecture mappings; I get illegal hardware instruction when trying to run the bun binary inside each of them on a standard x86_64 Intel Xeon CPU. 😕

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