Running vscode remote extension host(REH) in FreeBSD

Mainly tested with

host(server): FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p5 arm64
client(local): Windows 11 x64, VSCodium 1.75.1

Things work

• Open/edit/save files
• Rename files
• Integrated terminal with codium or code-oss command

Things don't work

• Using vscode client open-remote-ssh #62

Steps to connect

At client,

1. Download VSCodium.
2. Install open-remote-ssh extension.

At host,

Set default shell to bash or zsh. Bash is needed even if default shell is zsh

pkg install bash zsh
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh

To get working REH, 2 methods are available.

1. (Recommended) "Fix" vscodium's linux reh server. pkg install npm then follow steps from fix_codium/fix.sh
2. Build reh from scratch. Takes ~30 min at 1 core instance and requires 8GB ram. See build_oss