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