FreeBSD builds

[geeseven]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I would like to run gotify on FreeBSD but there are not any FreeBSD builds.

Describe the solution you'd like
I would like to see FreeBSD builds for each release just like other OSes.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Linux binary compatibility or running a Linux bhyve virtual machine are workarounds.

Additional context
n/a

[eternal-flame-AD]

@jmattheis What do you think? Should we add official support for this?

[jmattheis]

@eternal-flame-AD Sure, why not (:.

[eternal-flame-AD]

AFAIK Ubuntu does not seem to have a pre-built freebsd cross-compiler available. I think we need to build it from source manually. Right? @jmattheis

[jmattheis]

So, I'm not a free bsd user but I've you said that free bsd supports linux binary compatibility, why not use this instead?

Yeah, couldn't find a prebuilt cross compiler.

[eternal-flame-AD]

@geeseven Does the linux binary work on your machine?

[geeseven]

Thanks for the timely replies. I was hoping to avoid Linux binary compatibility if possible. It seems like a workaround golang was designed to eliminate. That being said, I understand in the real world other issues crop up.

If there is no tooling and y'all do not use FreeBSD, I think official support more or less just providing 'as is' binaries is not a good idea. If/when I get time, I will report back how I got gotify running on FreeBSD.

[zkvsky]

I've recently deployed gotify on freeBSD based VPS without any issues, built without any hiccups. If that helps anybody

[geeseven]

Hey @Barolo, glad to hear. Do you mind sharing details on what you did, as I have not had a chance to look into this further.

[zkvsky]

Besides VPS specific stuff like setting paths [ it had to be compiled and installed in the user folder ] nothing much

go get -u github.com/gotify/server

in the ui folder:

npm install
npm run build

in the main folder

packr build

[ I had to get packr, but just:

go get -u github.com/gobuffalo/packr/packr
go get -u github.com/gobuffalo/packr

was enough ]

then copy config.example.yml into config.yml [ changed port to what I needed ] and launch serwer, done.

npm and go was already set up

[geeseven]

@Barolo, thanks for the details. Did the ports versions of go and npm not work? Also do you mind sharing your rc.d script?

[zkvsky]

@geeseven It's a VPS, I have no access to system or say in how it's set up, It was preconfigured by a hosting provider

[geeseven]

Interesting, sounds more like a shell account than a VPS. None the less, thanks for sharing.

[zkvsky]

@geeseven It's something inbetween, on a shell account you can't usually binexec your own stuff. There's decent amount of configurability, myriad of dev tools of several versions and virtual environments for these [ It's also really cheap ]