Electron port for FreeBSD

Now It's Official

Electron is officially available in the FreeBSD ports tree. For more information, please see the following URLs:

• https://www.freshports.org/devel/electron4/
• https://www.freshports.org/devel/electron5/ (to appear)

This repository will continue to serve as a pre-official development repository.

This repository contains an experimental port of electron for FreeBSD. The port is largely based on:

• chromium patch files from www/chromium port
• electron patch files by @prash-wghats

Get

A package file is available at the releases page. To install, download the file (with .txz extension) and run the command (for example):

pkg install electron-4.1.4-freebsd12-amd64.txz

Run

electron

Build

If you would like to build artifacts for yourself, be sure you have the ports tree on your machine. If not, run the following commands:

portsnap fetch
portsnap extract

Clone this repository with git command and build/install electron (an external working directory is currently needed, defined with the WRKDIR enviroment variable):

git clone https://github.com/tagattie/FreeBSD-Electron
cd FreeBSD-Electron/devel/electron4
export WKRDIR=~/wrkdir
make install clean

Platform

• Built on FreeBSD 11 and 12 amd64.

Credits

• Chromium patches by FreeBSD/Chromium Team
• Electron patches by @prash-wghats at Electron-VSCode-Atom-For-FreeBSD
• Porting works by @freebsd-electron at electron-port