mirror-chatterino2/BUILDING_ON_FREEBSD.md

FreeBSD

Note on Qt version compatibility: If you are installing Qt from a package manager, please ensure the version you are installing is at least Qt 5.12 or newer.

FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE

Note: This is known to work on FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE amd64. Chances are high that this also works on older FreeBSD releases, architectures and FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT.

1. Install build dependencies from package sources (or build from the ports tree): # pkg install qt5-core qt5-multimedia qt5-svg qt5-qmake qt5-buildtools gstreamer-plugins-good boost-libs rapidjson
2. Go into the project directory
3. Create a build folder and go into it (mkdir build && cd build)
4. Proceed to compiling using the command qmake .. && make