Zed running on FreeBSD!

[syobocat]

Zed runs on FreeBSD, with small modifications!

Here's what I did:

• Replaced every #[cfg(target_os = "linux")] with #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "freebsd"))] (I found them on gpui and blade-graphics)
• Modified ipc-channel for FreeBSD libc (I don't know anything about libc, so I just followed hints which Cargo provided)
• Added -C link-dead-code to RUSTFLAGS

I'm not a developer or anything like that and I just did it out of curiosity, but I hope this helps other *BSD users to run Zed on their system, or Zed developers to support more platforms!

[AlekseyZaytcev]

Can you share your impressions? Is it ready for work at current state?

[ARPABoy]

It would be great FreeBSD ready source code and binary releases.

[rudrabhoj]

I tried to compile it on FreeBSD 14.1, replaced as you asked "Replaced every #[cfg(target_os = "linux")] with #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "freebsd"))]". But I get a lot of these errors:

use of undeclared crate or module cosmic_text

You can see the entire error here: https://pastebin.com/Wnj6vCA3

[mykola2312]

Can you please elaborate? Provide patches?

[mykola2312]

@syobocat

[syobocat]

Well, I haven't followed up after the post, so I can't say anything right now.
I think I'll try this again when I have time.

[chiefMarlin]

Please keep us posted, would be great to have an official freebsd release!

[syobocat]

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