About porting MEGASync

[shuryanc]

Hi Community,

I want to try porting the latest version of MEGASync to FreeBSD (I know kqueue is needed).
So I start from compiling the source code but stucked in some steps.

shuryanc/MEGAsync-For-FreeBSD

Easy automated syncing between your computers and your MEGA Cloud Drive - shuryanc/MEGAsync-For-FreeBSD

github.com

My question is, may I know if anyone had successfully compiled the latest version of MEGASync?

 

[eternal_noob]

I want to try porting the latest version of MEGASync to FreeBSD

But the shell prompt suggests you are using GhostBSD.

GhostBSD, pfSense, TrueNAS, and all other FreeBSD Derivatives

Questions about 'derivative FreeBSDs', like GhostBSD DesktopBSD TrueNAS XigmaNAS OPNsense pfSense PacBSD BSD Router Project NomadBSD helloSystem should be asked on the forums and/or mailing lists for these specific products. See below for links. If you still think your questions should be...

forums.freebsd.org

 

[shuryanc]

But the shell prompt suggests you are using GhostBSD.

GhostBSD, pfSense, TrueNAS, and all other FreeBSD Derivatives

Questions about 'derivative FreeBSDs', like GhostBSD DesktopBSD TrueNAS XigmaNAS OPNsense pfSense PacBSD BSD Router Project NomadBSD helloSystem should be asked on the forums and/or mailing lists for these specific products. See below for links. If you still think your questions should be...

forums.freebsd.org

From what I know, their base is the same (e.g. GhostBSD is adopting the Kernel from FreeBSD). GhostBSD tries to make FreeBSD to be easy to use. Could you provide some advise based on FreeBSD?

 

[Zirias]

There's an error in the configure script. Assuming this is generated by GNU autotools, you could try autoreconf from devel/autoconf-wrapper.

 

[shuryanc]

There's an error in the configure script. Assuming this is generated by GNU autotools, you could try autoreconf from devel/autoconf-wrapper.

Thanks Zirias. Let me try and check which configure script causes the issue.

 

[Menelkir]

Maybe creating a port for that will be better? Since you can deal with patches, path and all the stuff directly into the port Makefile instead of modifying megasync source tree.

 

[Zirias]

autoreconf will just attempt to re-generate the configure script from configure.ac, assuming this code indeed uses GNU autotools.

But I agree, it's probably easier to start with creating a port right away. There's a helpful USES=autoreconf to handle that kind of breakage automatically.

 

[richardtoohey2]

You might find help here: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/

There's also make versus gmake (it's all at that link, as is autoreconf).

 

[Menelkir]

Here´s a Makefile that I´ve started, but I had too many chimichangas that i´ve stopped worked on it. At last you have the deps and everything else. It´ll need more things to be done (in the case of megasync, you´ll need the Makefile.freebsd) Change it to suit your needs.

# $FreeBSD$

PORTNAME=    megasync
DISTVERSION=    v4.4.0.0
DISTVERSIONSUFFIX=    _Linux
CATEGORIES=    net

MAINTAINER=    menelkir@itroll.org
COMMENT=    MEGA Cloud Drive client

LICENSE=    MEGA
LICENSE_NAME=   MEGA
LICENSE_FILE=    ${WRKSRC}/LICENCE.md
LICENSE_PERMS=  no-dist-sell

LIB_DEPENDS=    libcares.so:dns/c-ares \
        libcryptopp.so:security/cryptopp \
        libsodium.so:security/libsodium \
        libuv.so:devel/libuv \
        libQt5Svg.so:graphics/qt5-svg \
        libQt5X11Extras.so:x11/qt5-x11extras \
        libmediainfo.so:multimedia/libmediainfo \
        libraw.so:graphics/libraw \
        libpcre.so:devel/pcre

USES=        libtool sqlite:3 readline shebangfix ssl qmake qt:5

NO_CDROM=       Commercial users must seek permission from copyright holders.

USE_GITHUB=    yes
GH_ACCOUNT=    meganz
GH_PROJECT=    MEGAsync sdk:sdk
GH_SUBDIR=    sdk:sdk
GH_TAGNAME=    v3.7.3c:sdk

USE_LDCONFIG=    yes

MAKEFILE=    Makefile.freebsd

INSTALL_TARGET=    install-strip

SHEBANG_FILES=    src/configure

CXXFLAGS+=    `pkgconf --cflags-only-other libcryptopp`

.include <bsd.port.mk>

 

[Misirca]

Unless you want some specific functionality with MEGAsync, remember rclone can mount and sync MEGA folders as well

 

[Menelkir]

Unless you want some specific functionality with MEGAsync, remember rclone can mount and sync MEGA folders as well

Doesn´t work as expected for mega, it works at some point but there´s many other issues like timeout, lag, etc. Being there, done that.
Actually the best choices for sync with mega is:
net/megatools : Works fine, but have some issues like lag and you don´t have a proper daemon for that (you can use a cron and a script, of course).
net/megacmd : It´s the official mega solution, works exactly the same but without a fancy GUI like megasync. There´s a daemon that runs in background. Have is own issues like lag in different scenarios, etc.