Installing on FreeBSD, error

[Fastidious]

Got it. Installed gcc5 and that solved the problem.

[psychobunny]

@Fastidious did you follow the official docs? If so, a pull request to add that extra step is greatly appreciated. Just hit the edit button on the top right

EDIT: oops, I guess we don't even have a FreeBSD section in our docs. What OS did you use as your guide? Could add a new page copied and pasted from the original and adding your last step.

[Fastidious]

@psychobunny I simply installed node withpkg (did not use ports), cloned NodeBB and did the regular routine (npm install, nodebb setup, etc.). It was crashing on setup because I had gcc48. Installed gcc49, no dice. Finally installed gcc5 and updated libmap.conf under /etc/ as follows:

libstdc++.so.6  gcc5/libstdc++.so.6

And the beast took a deep breath, and opened its eyes. Hehe.

[Fastidious]

@psychobunny said:

Could add a new page copied and pasted from the original and adding your last step.

I can come up with a page. It should be fairly straight forward, but I already had many things installed on that VPS, so I am not sure if whatever requirements were needed I already had them.

[psychobunny]

You seem to know a lot more about this than any of our core team. Myself especially

If you could add a freebsd section to the docs then kudos to you, likely somebody else will run into the problem you had and I'd have no idea how to respond

[Fastidious]

@psychobunny said:

If you could add a freebsd section to the docs then kudos to you

Done. Pull request pending.

[psychobunny]

Thanks! the PR is missing a link from the OS page to your new page though

[rfc2822]

Which JS engine do you use, v8? Maybe it's related to that.

I'm using FreeBSD too (now with mongodb), and I didn't have to install gcc5 or do any /etc changes to use NodeBB with redis.

[Fastidious]

@rfc2822 if you have a newer gcc installed, there is no reason to install or perform the changes I had to do. My server is not "vanilla" FreeBSD, it is "tinkering-a-lot" FreeBSD.

[rfc2822]

You wrote "It was crashing on setup because I had gcc48". I only have gcc-4.8.5 installed, too (I highly prefer Clang, so I'm not picky about having the latest gcc version).

[Fastidious]

@rfc2822 4.8.5 is fine, 4.8 is not. Do this:

strings /usr/local/lib/gcc48/libstdc++.so.6 |grep GLIBCXX_3.4.21

If you see it, you are fine.

[rfc2822]

Ok,. I have just thought every gcc48 version would crash for you. – So everything is OK

Really love NodeBB & FreeBSD