development

Hi Guys! I see a similar topic about vi for writing novel. And I want to ask your experience to a every-day development process usin only vim as editor. My question are: 1. Project files tree, how do this in vim? I'm found plugin NERDTree, but not understand how create files, or maybe how...

I heard from multiple sources (both about FBSD and OBSD) that if I want develop for FBSD (both base and userland) I need to do it in CURRENT. Fist question round: is this true? if so, Why? Second question round: how do you go about? RELEASE on metal and CURRENT on VM's/Jails or CURRENT directly...

Hi. I wonder how much people involved in some case into FreeBSD development and all the software? Is it 100 or 1 million? And let’s say we want to developer a new X11 server. How much people usually needed to make it real?

Hi! Can I install PyQt5 on FreeBSD? I need to know before changing my OS. Thank you!

System: FreeBSD 14 I'm new to FreeBSD, coming from Linux and have always used gcc. In FreeBSD so I can compile in C and C++ what should I use? Thanks.

Hi everybody, I'm experiencing my first driver dev. And I have this compil error : /usr/src/sys/sys/bus.h:743:10: fatal error: 'device_if.h' file not found How should I troubleshoot this, please ? Or how do I generate device_if.h from device_if.m ? Thanks a lot Cheers

Hello. I'm interested in building a BSD distribution. What tools are best to use? I have experience in compiling Linux distributions. :)

Hi, As developper coming from Ubuntu, i'm using lots of different "package manager" for different langages... To manage the potential conflict that arrive with different version of langage and dependencies on the same system, this is more and more common to use "shim" redirection that help dev...

I'm working on a project about recompiling Linux binaries to FreeBSD. No, I'm not talking about Linux binary compatibility. I want to do something different. I know FreeBSD and Linux are two different OSes, and it's very hard or maybe impossible to do something like that, but all fine... I will...

If anyone has a practical experience, please advise me. I am a Mac user for past 20 years, and at the moment I am trying to build some modern open-source software to run on my G5 Quad under 10.6 PPC. Most of it does build (I use Macports for that). However some fail, including software that I...

When we summit patches the process is There is a bug on bugzilla.freebsd.org Someone creates a patch, and committers review it on reviews.freebsd.org When the patch seems okay, a committer commits a patch. However, if someone made a huge change, such as changing OS structure, adding shells and...

I am new to Qt and I am confused as to how this works, please forgive me if this is a stupid question so here it is. I am running FreeBSD 13.0 and install all necessary packages for Qt 5 and I created a simple that found on the newly purchased book C++ GUI Programming with QT4 (Old) but I...

1)Cron job: So cron job be able to run a process accordance with certain time intervals or whatever the desired shape is. It can be able to run most of file types or all type of languages probably. 2)Kernel module: Kernel module also runs with kernel on the background. Its main target is making...

I have been using FreeBSD and tinkering with it for about 4 years now and I want to take on a bigger role in the community and really work on the FreeBSD operating system at a lower level in my free time to expand my skill sets. I know a little Assembly and am pretty versed in C. Any tips on...

Hey Guys, Freshly I start use FreeBSD, actually I dive on FreeBSD :D I need some software for android , kotlin and rust development, and a good virtualization package like virtualbox and genymotion on linux (I have some project that i must ready system for development ASAP), and some reference...

Hello all, I would like to contribute to dev projects through the FreeBSD dashboard (https://reviews.freebsd.org/). I'm wondering if someone can help me get started? Thank you!

Cirrus Labs has just released support for FreeBSD on their CI service. And they've made it free for OSS! Cirrus-CI is a cloud-based CI system for cloud-hosted software, much like Travis-CI, Appveyor, Circle-CI, etc. But it's the first* such system to support FreeBSD with no weird hacks...

This time I'm asking how to create, well, basically, code. I'm not mean a "hello world", I'm mean something alike the drivers, the programs, etc. All the things that conform the system. Just curiosity. Edit: Sorry, my english is reasonably good, but I hadn't repaired in that the title should be...

Hi all, I am working on a kernel module but am getting some unexpected code execution. Dtrace probes reveal that the kernel executes: "rtwn.ko`r88ee_init_bb+0x219" and then jumps somewhere that I did not expect. I would like to track down exactly which line that is. I compiled the module with...

Hey guys, I am willing use Team City and other JetBrains applications for personal and casual development of plugins to my blog and some apps also. The goal is have an remote development area available online, so I can access this space from any freelancer, university, lan-house, etc... I...