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THE FASTEST WAY TO BUILD JAVASCRIPT APPS

Meteor is an open source platform for web, mobile, and desktop.

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Setup Meteor on FreeBSD

Install all dependency packages

Node.js
Python
GCC
MongoDB
Phusion Passenger
- Details can be found here

Install Meteor

Because FreeBSD is not official supported by Meteor you have to adjust some platform specific settings. I found a starting point on unibia.com for these adjustments, but had to change them to be compatible with the current Meteor version.

fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tuaris/meteor-freebsd/master/install.sh

Manual adjustments

Allow FreeBSD as supported platform in tools/utils/archinfo.js based on commit 2fa38bd

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// Valid architectures that Meteor officially supports.
export const VALID_ARCHITECTURES = {
  "os.osx.x86_64": true,
  "os.linux.x86_64": true,
  "os.linux.x86_32": true,
  "os.windows.x86_64": true,
  "os.windows.x86_32": true,
  // add freebsd
  "os.freebsd.x86_64": true,
};

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    // change condition to allow freebsd too
    else if (_.contains(["linux", "freebsd"], platform)) {
      var machine = run('uname', '-m');
      if (_.contains(["i386", "i686", "x86"], machine)) {
        _host = "os." + platform + "x86_32";
      } else if (_.contains(["x86_64", "amd64", "ia64"], machine)) {
        _host = "os." + platform + "x86_64";
      } else {
        throw new Error("Unsupported architecture: " + machine);
      }
    }

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Allow FreeBSD as supported platform in meteor based on commit e8612e5

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UNAME=$(uname)
# allow FreeBSD
if [ "$UNAME" != "Linux" -a "$UNAME" != "FreeBSD" -a "$UNAME" != "Darwin" ] ; then
    echo "Sorry, this OS is not supported."
    exit 1
fi

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# allow FreeBSD
elif [ "$UNAME" = "Linux" -o "$UNAME" != "FreeBSD" ] ; then
    ARCH="$(uname -m)"
    # allow amd64
    if [ "$ARCH" = "amd64" ] ; then
        ARCH="x86_64"
    fi
    if [ "$ARCH" != "i686" -a "$ARCH" != "x86_64" ] ; then
        echo "Unsupported architecture: $ARCH"
        echo "Meteor only supports i686 and x86_64 for now."
        exit 1
    fi
fi
PLATFORM="${UNAME}_${ARCH}"

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