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+setenv CFLAGS -fPIC
+
+# also FreeBSD has a mupdf port, we should build it manually
+wget https://mupdf.com/downloads/archive/mupdf-1.14.0-source.tar.gz
+tar -zxvf mupdf-1.14.0-source.tar.gz
+
+rm -rf PyMuPDF
+git clone https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF.git
+
+cd mupdf-1.14.0-source
+# replace 3 files in mupdf-1.14.0
+cp ../PyMuPDF/fitz/_mupdf_config.h include/mupdf/fitz/config.hfig.h
+cp ../PyMuPDF/fitz/_error.c source/fitz/error.c
+cp ../PyMuPDF/fitz/_pdf-device.c source/pdf/pdf-device.c
+
+gmake HAVE_X11=no HAVE_GLFW=no HAVE_GLUT=no prefix=/usr/local
+gmake HAVE_X11=no HAVE_GLFW=no HAVE_GLUT=no prefix=/usr/local install
+
+cd ../PyMuPDF
+python setup.py build
+python setup.py install