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freebsd 13.2 can not compile ,, it bugs #2361

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@jiadsii
jiadsii
opened on Oct 8, 2023

How are you using the lua-language-server?

Other

Which OS are you using?

Other

What is the issue affecting?

Other

Expected Behaviour

when i try to compile this in freebsd, it cannot coplete in once, and it reports error

Actual Behaviour

i think it never compile in freebsd 13.2

and i hope it can add a package for freebsd

Reproduction steps

i just do according to the document.

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  1. rymdbar commented on Dec 21, 2023

    @rymdbar
    rymdbar
    on Dec 21, 2023

    Does it work better on FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE? What are the exact commands run and the error message encountered?

  2. brianreichtcs commented on Mar 12, 2024

    @brianreichtcs
    brianreichtcs
    on Mar 12, 2024

    I am also on FreeBSD 13.2. Here's my output from make.sh, if that helps.

    output.txt

  3. rymdbar commented on Mar 12, 2024

    @rymdbar
    rymdbar
    on Mar 12, 2024

    Thanks @brianreichtcs for logs and steps to reproduce. I get similar results with FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE.

    At least some of the errors seems to be from bee.lua, which is a submodule of lua-language-server. A brief look at the source code indicates that the BSD code merely points at the linux implementation. Without properly reading nor understand the details, I see mentions of inotify which natively is a linux specific API. An interesting quote from bee.lua#42 reads:

    filewatch on freebsd is incomplete. filewatch depends on libinotify-kqueue, but unfortunately libinotify-kqueue doesn't work correctly.

    Furthermore bee.lua#12 states that lua-language-server is unlikely to use filewatch, so the failing tests should be safe to ignore.

    As far as I know, lua-language-server does not use filewatch, you can ignore this test.

    Maybe it is possible add conditionals around irrelevant functionality and their tests? Either in bee.lua, lua-language-server or in the ports tree. I will unfortunately not be able to attempt that anytime soon though.

  4. brianreichtcs commented on Mar 12, 2024

    @brianreichtcs
    brianreichtcs
    on Mar 12, 2024

    Fair enough :) I'm trying to work my team out of the FreeBSD business for exactly reasons like this. I thought given some more information maybe there'd be an existing solution, but didn't expect anyone to spend time on this to solve the issue for the 6 people it will impact. Thanks for looking it over, and thanks for all your efforts! Looking forward to using this package when we port over to Linux.

  5. vermaden commented on Mar 14, 2024

    @vermaden
    vermaden
    on Mar 14, 2024

    These instructions seem to work on my FreeBSD 14.0 system - I needed to 'silence' two tests ...

    # pkg install ninja

% git clone https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server.git

% cd lua-language-server

% :> 3rd/bee.lua/test/test.lua

% :> test.lua

% ./make.sh

% ./bin/lua-language-server
Content-Length: 120

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"$/status/report","params":{"text":"Lua","tooltip":"Cached files: 0/0\nMemory usage: 2M"}}

  6. brianreichtcs commented on Apr 1, 2024

    @brianreichtcs
    brianreichtcs
    on Apr 1, 2024

    These instructions seem to work on my FreeBSD 14.0 system - I needed to 'silence' two tests ...

    # pkg install ninja

% git clone https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server.git

% cd lua-language-server

% :> 3rd/bee.lua/test/test.lua

% :> test.lua

% ./make.sh

% ./bin/lua-language-server
Content-Length: 120

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"$/status/report","params":{"text":"Lua","tooltip":"Cached files: 0/0\nMemory usage: 2M"}}

    Skipping the tests as you demonstrated makes the build succeed. Thanks so much!

  7. rymdbar commented on Jun 22, 2024

    @rymdbar
    rymdbar
    on Jun 22, 2024

    For what it is worth, I tried and failed to package up a port. The attempt is available under this LuaLS branch.

    Successful creation of a port would likely need to address a few issues. Among those:

    • This software has no release tar balls, and due to using submodules for dependencies it is only buildable from within its git repository.
    • All users launching this software needs to have write access to log files, which becomes under $PREFIX with my porting attempt.
    • The compiled resulting binary fails to start with an error message about not finding bootstrap.lua, it also appears to look for main.lua directly in the root of $PREFIX/.

    I'm giving up on creating this port for now. I still think it would be great to properly package this stuff though.

  8. CppCXY commented on Sep 11, 2024

    @CppCXY
    CppCXY
    on Sep 11, 2024
    Member

    I have created a Rust-based luals port, which might meet your requirements. see https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server-rust

  9. vermaden commented on Sep 11, 2024

    @vermaden
    vermaden
    on Sep 11, 2024

    I have created a Rust-based luals port, which might meet your requirements. see https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server-rust

    Nice, thank You for sharing that.

  10. Marce1in commented on Sep 15, 2024

    @Marce1in
    Marce1in
    on Sep 15, 2024

    These instructions seem to work on my FreeBSD 14.0 system - I needed to 'silence' two tests ...

    # pkg install ninja

% git clone https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server.git

% cd lua-language-server

% :> 3rd/bee.lua/test/test.lua

% :> test.lua

% ./make.sh

% ./bin/lua-language-server
Content-Length: 120

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"$/status/report","params":{"text":"Lua","tooltip":"Cached files: 0/0\nMemory usage: 2M"}}

    Just to add a little more, I was unable to compile luaLS even when following this guide in my FreeBSD 14.1, but apparently if I:

    # pkg install libinotify

    I'm able compile!

  11. vermaden commented on Sep 15, 2024

    @vermaden
    vermaden
    on Sep 15, 2024

    Thanks for submitting that - I just added libinotify to the 'needed packages' :)

  12. dmarker commented on Oct 22, 2025

    @dmarker
    dmarker
    on Oct 22, 2025

    FreeBSD 15 (now in beta) has a native inotify(2) and no longer needs devl/libinotify.

    I have made a port which I'm using to test (but this is my first port so its probably not optimal). It is however reproducable and bee passes all tests. If you know how to build ports give it a try.

  13. vermaden commented on Oct 22, 2025

    @vermaden
    vermaden
    on Oct 22, 2025

    Thanks You for this good portion of information ... when I will have time to play with this - I will test it and let you know how it went.

  14. dmarker commented on Dec 3, 2025

    @dmarker
    dmarker
    on Dec 3, 2025

    With the release of 3.16.0 devel/libinotify is sufficient for stable/14 FreeBSD again (probably stable/13 as well and maybe other BSDs but I have not tested). I have updated my port and will be making PR to get it into FreeBSD ports tree again later today.

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