FreeBSD about tunshell

[wez]

I published portable-pty 0.3.1 with the FreeBSD build fix for that component.

@probonopd: thanks for the info about FreeBSD CI; I'll see if I can hook that up in wezterm.

[wez]

FWIW, setting up FreeBSD CI for a rust project was pretty easy (but 2x slower than my slowest build target) using Cirrus:
wez/wezterm@4c9af46
The docs for cirrus had some info on capturing artifacts from the build, so it should be possible for you to deploy binaries from there.

[probonopd]

2x slower than my slowest build target

Is it CPU and/or RAM-bound? Then you can add more CPUs in the Cirrus CI configuration like this:

freebsd_instance:
  image: freebsd-12-1-release-amd64
  cpu: 4
  memory: 8G

[wez]

2x slower than my slowest build target

Is it CPU and/or RAM-bound? Then you can add more CPUs in the Cirrus CI configuration like this:

freebsd_instance:
  image: freebsd-12-1-release-amd64
  cpu: 4
  memory: 8G

Thanks; that extra CPU made it more reasonable!

[TimeToogo]

Hi @probonopd,

Looks like this is not going to be simple one. Few blockers on this:

• I can successfully compile a working client on FreeBSD but I currently cannot build a statically-linked binary.
• Dependency fails to compile on freebsd targets, should be addressed by wez/wezterm#258
• GitHub actions does not support FreeBSD runners so automated deployment will be difficult.

[probonopd]

Hi @TimeToogo, thanks for taking the time to look into this.

statically-linked binary

I'd have no issues with that.

GitHub actions does not support FreeBSD runners

https://cirrus-ci.org/ does, and it can be integrated with GitHub. I am using it here to build an application for FreeBSD.

Something like this could be used to upload the build artefacts to GitHub Releases if needed.

[TimeToogo]

@probonopd I've been experimenting a little more and I've deployed dynamically-linked x86 64/32 bit binaries for FreeBSD which can currently be used by used a modified version of the install shell script:

curl -sSf https://lets.tunshell.com/init--bsd.sh

Considering the nature of this app I'm not comfortable adding a relatively niche deployment platform.
I'm going to hold off on merging feature/freebsd until solutions can be found to the previous points.

[probonopd]

Thanks a lot @TimeToogo.

Works like a charm for me, I am very happy 👍

[Mic92]

Was the freebsd link at https://lets.tunshell.com/init--bsd.sh removed again?

[TimeToogo]

@Mic92 @probonopd FreeBSD support is now added to the standard builds. No custom script is necessary.

[Mic92]

cool!

[phil-blain]

Hi! I successfully used tunshell to log into a Cirrus-CI FreeBSD VM. Thanks for this tool! However I noticed FreeBSD support is not listed in the README. Just thought I’d let you know :)