devel/electron43 43.8.0 FreeBSD

Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Port added: 2026-07-17
Last update: 2026-10-19
Commit: c5e17aa1a4
License: BSD3CLAUSE, LGPL21, MPL11, MIT
Categories: devel

Description

Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

It's easier than you think.

If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your application.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

FreeBSD

devel/electron43

43.8.0

MidnightBSD

devel/electron43

43.5.0_1

GhostBSD

devel/electron43

43.7.3

Install

Binary package:

pkg install electron43

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/devel/electron43/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	electron43>0:devel/electron43

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository

aarch64

amd64

armv6

armv7

i386

FreeBSD:14:latest

FreeBSD:14:quarterly

n/a

FreeBSD:15:latest

n/a

FreeBSD:15:quarterly

n/a

FreeBSD:16:latest

n/a

FreeBSD:16:quarterly

n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Build 6

gperf : devel/gperf
bindgen : devel/rust-bindgen-cli
yasm : devel/yasm
${LOCALBASE}/libdata/pkgconfig/dri.pc : graphics/mesa-libs
${LOCALBASE}/include/linux/videodev2.h : multimedia/v4l_compat
clang22 : devel/llvm22

Library 27

libatk-bridge-2.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
libatspi.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
libFLAC.so : audio/flac
libopus.so : audio/opus
libdbus-1.so : devel/dbus
libepoll-shim.so : devel/libepoll-shim
libevent.so : devel/libevent
libffi.so : devel/libffi
libnotify.so : devel/libnotify
libpci.so : devel/libpci
libnspr4.so : devel/nspr
libre2.so : devel/re2
libdrm.so : graphics/libdrm
libpng.so : graphics/png
libwayland-client.so : graphics/wayland
libwebp.so : graphics/webp
libdav1d.so : multimedia/dav1d
libva.so : multimedia/libva
libopenh264.so : multimedia/openh264
libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
libsecret-1.so : security/libsecret
libnss3.so : security/nss
libexpat.so : textproc/expat2
libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon
libxshmfence.so : x11/libxshmfence
libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig

Runtime 1

xdg-open : devel/xdg-utils

Test 3

git : devel/git
${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}python-dbusmock>0 : devel/py-python-dbusmock
sentry-cli : devel/sentry-cli

Fetch 1

git : devel/git

Patch 2

git : devel/git
jq : textproc/jq

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 216

The first 100 are listed.

Run dependencies 151

The first 100 are listed.

Required by 3

Configuration

Options name: devel_electron

Option

Default

Description

ALSA

ALSA audio architecture support

AVX512

Enable AVX512 instructions

CODECS

Compile and enable patented codecs like H.264

CUPS

CUPS printing system support

DEBUG

off

Build with debugging support

DIST

off

Build distribution zip files

DRIVER

Install chromedriver

HEIMDAL

off

Heimdal Kerberos (security/heimdal)

HEIMDAL_BASE

off

Heimdal Kerberos (base)

KERBEROS

Kerberos support

LTO

off

Use Link-Time Optimization

MIT

off

MIT Kerberos (security/krb5)

PIPEWIRE

Screen capture via PipeWire

PULSEAUDIO

PulseAudio sound server support

SNDIO

Sndio audio support

USES: bison cargo compiler:c++17-lang cpe display:test gettext-tools gl gmake gnome iconv:wchar_t jpeg localbase:ldflags ninja nodejs:24,build npm:yarn4 pkgconfig python:build,test qt:5 shebangfix tar:xz xorg
Service scripts: none

Files

pkg-plist 377

bin/electron
share/electron43/LICENSE
share/electron43/LICENSES.chromium.html
share/electron43/chrome_100_percent.pak
share/electron43/chrome_200_percent.pak
share/electron43/chromedriver
share/electron43/electron
share/electron43/gen/electron/buildflags/buildflags.h
share/electron43/gen/electron/tsc/typings/electron.d.ts
share/electron43/gen/v8/embedded.S
share/electron43/libEGL.so
share/electron43/libGLESv2.so
share/electron43/libffmpeg.so
share/electron43/libvk_swiftshader.so
share/electron43/libvulkan.so
share/electron43/locales/af.pak
share/electron43/locales/af_FEMININE.pak
share/electron43/locales/af_MASCULINE.pak
share/electron43/locales/af_NEUTER.pak
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share/electron43/locales/am_MASCULINE.pak
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share/electron43/locales/ar.pak
share/electron43/locales/ar_FEMININE.pak
share/electron43/locales/ar_MASCULINE.pak
share/electron43/locales/ar_NEUTER.pak
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share/electron43/locales/bg_FEMININE.pak
share/electron43/locales/bg_MASCULINE.pak
share/electron43/locales/bg_NEUTER.pak
share/electron43/locales/bn.pak
share/electron43/locales/bn_FEMININE.pak
share/electron43/locales/bn_MASCULINE.pak
share/electron43/locales/bn_NEUTER.pak
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share/electron43/locales/ca_MASCULINE.pak
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share/electron43/locales/cs_NEUTER.pak
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share/electron43/locales/fa_NEUTER.pak
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share/electron43/locales/fil_FEMININE.pak
share/electron43/locales/fil_MASCULINE.pak
share/electron43/locales/fil_NEUTER.pak
share/electron43/locales/fr.pak
share/electron43/locales/fr_FEMININE.pak
share/electron43/locales/fr_MASCULINE.pak
share/electron43/locales/fr_NEUTER.pak
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share/electron43/locales/gu_FEMININE.pak
share/electron43/locales/gu_MASCULINE.pak
share/electron43/locales/gu_NEUTER.pak
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share/electron43/locales/he_FEMININE.pak
share/electron43/locales/he_MASCULINE.pak
share/electron43/locales/he_NEUTER.pak
share/electron43/locales/hi.pak

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distinfo 220

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Master sites 2

https://github.com/tagattie/FreeBSD-Electron/releases/download/v43.5.0/:chromium
https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/:pulseaudio

Commit history 21

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-10-19

c5e17aa1a4

Hiroki Tagato

devel/electron43: Update to 43.8.0

Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.8.0 Reported by: GitHub (watch releases)

2026-10-15

4297da6948

Hiroki Tagato

devel/electron43: Update to 43.7.11

Changelog: - https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.7.10 - https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.7.11 Reported by: GitHub (watch releases)

2026-10-14

9c878207a1

Mikael Urankar

lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.99.0

PR: 299016

2026-10-12 602e7efd2e Hiroki Tagato devel/electron{41,42,43,44}: Fix build with LOCALBASE != /usr/local

2026-10-12

f1aab7fd8e

Hiroki Tagato

devel/electron{41,42,43,44}: Add AVX512 option to support older CPUs

Builds on older CPUs without AVX512 instructions support fail with the following error: In file included from ../../third_party/skia/modules/skcms/src/skcms_TransformSkx.cc:53: ../../third_party/skia/modules/skcms/src/Transform_inl.h:152:15: error: always_inline function '_mm512_cvtph_ps' requires target feature 'avx512f', but would be inlined into function 'F_from_Half' that is compiled without support for 'avx512f' 152 | return (F)_mm512_cvtph_ps((__m256i)half); Add AVX512 option, which is ON by default (status quo). Users can set the option to OFF to build on older hardware. PR: 299208 Reported by: Hiroo Ono <hiroo.ono+[email protected]> Tested by: Hiroo Ono <hiroo.ono+[email protected]>

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