Ghostty is ready for FreeBSD

[ksolowoniuk]

Hey, is this going to be available as a package?

 

[T-Aoki]

Hey, is this going to be available as a package?

Should be, as it's already landed onto ports tree.

But it seems that builds on official pkg builder is somehow failing.
Strange, as it builds fine on my local poudriere builds. The maintainer and a committer is discussing about it on Matrix.

Anyway, upcoming next quarterly (2026Q1, not yet branched) should have it.

 

[fmc000]

FreeBSD Ports Search

ports.freebsd.org

 

[ksolowoniuk]

Should be, as it's already landed onto ports tree.

But it seems that builds on official pkg builder is somehow failing.
Strange, as it builds fine on my local poudriere builds. The maintainer and a committer is discussing about it on Matrix.

Anyway, upcoming next quarterly (2026Q1, not yet branched) should have it.

Thanks for the info. I'm running the latest branch but still am not seeing it, it'll keep checking in.

 

[nxjoseph]

FreeBSD Ports Search

ports.freebsd.org

What should that page mean?

 

[fmc000]

That the port is ready.

 

[nxjoseph]

That the port is ready.

I feel like that doesn't benefit this question.

Hey, is this going to be available as a package?

 

[fmc000]

It is available as a package right now or it's currently compiling or it's in the queue.

 

[sgharms]

FreshPorts -- x11/ghostty: Fast, native and feature-rich terminal emulator with GPU acceleration

Ghostty is a terminal emulator that differentiates itself by being fast, feature-rich, and native. While there are many excellent terminal emulators available, they all force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs. Ghostty provides all three.

www.freshports.org

I just did git pull on my ports tree and....

$ git log  --oneline lang/zig/Makefile |head
c99c0e8625e3 lang/zig: update 0.14.0 -> 0.15.2

Happy day?

Edit: I realize I was looking at an old tab and didn't see the updates where everyone knows that this port has been updated. I can't find delete message, so...have a nice day. Listen to some Guy Clark songs or something.

 

[fmc000]

https://www.freshports.org/x11/ghostty/

Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.

This means that, as I wrote before, there are still no binary packages available. We just need to wait.

 

[mer]

https://www.freshports.org/x11/ghostty/



This means that, as I wrote before, there are still no binary packages available. We just need to wait.

I thought "flavours" as applied to the ports infrastructure is "same port different options".

Like we have "xorg" which is the complete metaport for X and xorg-minimal which is a metaport for a subset of xorg. So there are 2 flavours of Xorg port: full and minimal.

evince PDF reader is another:
evince has GNOME dependencies, evince-lite is "evince without the GNOME dependencies"

I don't know how many ports use flavours, but there are a few.

 

[charlie137]

I thought "flavours" as applied to the ports infrastructure is "same port different options".

Like we have "xorg" which is the complete metaport for X and xorg-minimal which is a metaport for a subset of xorg. So there are 2 flavours of Xorg port: full and minimal.

evince PDF reader is another:
evince has GNOME dependencies, evince-lite is "evince without the GNOME dependencies"

I don't know how many ports use flavours, but there are a few.

many ports use flavors. i have a few that use flavor flags to handle CLI/GUI versions (https://www.freshports.org/devel/dorst/). but we don't need flavors for ghostty really. it is a GUI app, and can support x11 and wayland at the same time. so there is no need for flavors at this time.

first build run failed, and we cannot reproduce the error at this time. maybe unrelated to the port, and the next run is going to be a successful one. gotta wait and see