You can find some instructions on how to get it running here: http://sharp.dimens.io/en/stable/install/
You'll also need to install node8
(node10
doesn't work), npm-node8
, egl
and gcc5
via pkg install
to successfully run the compilation of vips
. Secondly you might need to add some symlinks for python
(link it to python2.7
; better link all the other python executables as well) and vips8
(link it to vips-8.7
in /usr/local/bin/
. If the vips
compilation fails in the end (can take hours) then it might still be sufficiently working for nodeBB
, give it a try!
sharp
itself is the package which is breaking the ./nodeBB start
on FreeBSD (in my case v11.2
). If you didn't fix the sharp
installation before running ./nodeBB setup
you might need to run npm install sharp
in the nodeBB
installation folder.