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GuillaumeGomez
Improve support for NetBSD
As expressed in #625, would it be possible to improve support for NetBSD?
I'm willing to help as much as possible to get this rolling.
Cheers!
It is possible, just that it'll take time. The first step will be to have a NetBSD CI set up.
@GuillaumeGomez Just so it doesn't fall into oblivion, I'm trying to get some help with this.
@GuillaumeGomez Long time, I know. I might have found something that could work, https://github.com/vmactions/netbsd-vm
What do you say?
It'd be very slow to run because it is a VM inside a VM. I did the same for freebsd at first and I stopped when it broke for a few months and switched to cirrus ci. Much faster without one VM layer.
😢 ok, I get that. I know another dev reached out to cirrus ci to ask, I'll need to check with him if he got some answer back.
@GuillaumeGomez I've just asked myself on this issue, https://github.com/cirruslabs/cirrus-ci-docs/issues/970
@GuillaumeGomez Is this approach any better? https://github.com/asmjit/asmjit/commit/7421dea76455787c08317950a32f6cb4fd4bb175
I'll keep looking.
Also, elvish provides pre-compiled binaries, maybe worthy to dig into how these are compiled.
It's the same I originally used for freebsd a while ago which I then discarded because of the number of bugs and the slowness.
@GuillaumeGomez Maybe now it's possible. Apparently, both NetBSD and OpenBSD have been added to cirrus-ci, https://cirrus-ci.com/build/6221284932583424
Are you still willing to do this? Let me know if I can help somehow.
Regards
Oh nice! I should really speed up my current code rework so development can resume... In any case, you can always try to add support for one. I expect that NetBSD/OpenBSD will be more or less the same as FreeBSD.
@GuillaumeGomez I'm on holidays until the 1st of August but, I'll look into it when I'm back home 👍
I don't really have enough knowledge to implement support on my own but, I'll try to go through the FreeBSD implementation and find my way around 😄 At least, I have a native environment. I'm planning on a fresh install to solve some bugs that have been annoying me for a while but, I should be able to start looking into this by the end of next week.
No hurry. I think taking a look is a good idea but I really need to finish the rework so you can work without problem. ^^'