Sadly, I don't have an autobuilder for any of the BSDs, so these instructions are not regularly verified. Please let me know if FreeBSD, NetBSD, or OpenBSD breaks and especially if there's an autobuilder like Travis-CI for those OS's. Luckily, building fwup is not that complicated.
Before building, some packages are required for building and running regression tests.
On FreeBSD, run:
pkg install autoconf pkgconf zip help2man mtools base64
On OpenBSD, run:
pkg_add autoconf automake zip unzip help2man mtools base64
On NetBSD, run:
pkg_add autoconf automake libtool pkg-config zip help2man mtools base64
On DragonFlyBSD, run:
pkg install autoconf automake libtool pkgconf zip help2man mtools base64
On other platforms, fwup can be built statically or dynamically. At
the moment, only the dynamic (shared library) version is supported on BSD.
To build the dynamic version, install the shared library dependencies:
# Install compile-time and run-time dependencies
## FreeBSD/DragonFlyBSD
pkg install libarchive
## OpenBSD
pkg_add libarchive curl
## NetBSD
pkg_add confuse libarchive
# The FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, and OpenBSD versions of libconfuse are very old (v2.7)
# 2.8 or later is needed and >=3.0 is much preferred.
curl -O -L https://github.com/martinh/libconfuse/releases/download/v3.2.2/confuse-3.2.2.tar.gz
tar xzf confuse-3.2.2.tar.gz
cd confuse-3.2.2
./configure && make && sudo make install
If you are building fwup from the git repository, you'll need to
generate the ./configure script. Do the following:
cd fwup
./autogen.sh
Now you can build and install fwup using the normal Unix build recipe:
cd fwup
./configure
# if ./configure fails to find libconfuse, try running:
# export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
# OpenBSD: export the following (if unsure, look for
# /usr/local/bin/autoconf-xyz, etc.: export AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.69
export AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.15
make
make check
sudo make install