results of trying Avalonia (and others) on GhostBSD (FreeBSD)

[sjsepan3]

Overview

Although FreeBSD it is not supported, since I am able to run a port of Code-OSS and also of .Net SDK 8.0 on GhostBSD 2024040.1 (FreeBSD 14.0-STABLE), I thought I'd try porting some of my .Net projects from Linux (Mint).

• A simple console app builds/runs OK
• An Avalonia app gets build warnings about obsolete (deprecated) dialog calls (as it does on Linux) but no errors (the Linux app runs OK) -- but running on GhostBSD gives "No runtime platform services configured." I've looked at "Cannot start Avalonia under FreeBSD Cannot start Avalonia under FreeBSD #6990 ", and I am not referencing Avalonia.Native (but should I?)
• A Terminal.Gui app builds OK, but gets runtime error "Curses failed to initialize, the exception is: Error loading native library "libncursesw.so.6, libncursesw.so.5", even after ncurses library 6.4_1 installed. Update: If so, put

Application.UseSystemConsole = true;

before

 Application.Init();

• A Terminal.Gui app builds OK, but gets runtime error "Curses failed to initialize, the exception is: Error loading native library "libncursesw.so.6, libncursesw.so.5", even after ncurses library 6.4_1 installed.
• A Gtk.Sharp app build has no warnings or errors, but at runtime: "The type initializer for 'Gtk.Application' threw an exception." even after installing the gtk-sharp30, gtk-sharp2.0, gio-sharp pkgs

I'm not really expecting a fix; just putting this here for future reference/discussion. The Avalonia Linux app I used is this one https://gitlab.com/sjsepan/AvaloniaApp1

Code-OSS

Version: 1.88.1
Commit: e170252f762678dec6ca2cc69aba1570769a5d39
Date: 2024-05-07T13:49:21.988Z
Electron: 28.3.1
ElectronBuildId: undefined
Chromium: 120.0.6099.291
Node.js: 18.18.2
V8: 12.0.267.19-electron.0
OS: FreeBSD x64 14.0-STABLE

dotnet --info

.NET SDK:
 Version:           8.0.105
 Commit:            eae90abaaf
 Workload version:  8.0.100-manifests.796a77f8

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     FreeBSD
 OS Version:  14
 OS Platform: FreeBSD
 RID:         freebsd-x64
 Base Path:   /usr/home/sjsepan/.dotnet/sdk/8.0.105/

.NET workloads installed:
 Workload version: 8.0.100-manifests.796a77f8
There are no installed workloads to display.

Host:
  Version:      8.0.5
  Architecture: x64
  Commit:       087e15321b

.NET SDKs installed:
  6.0.403 [/usr/home/sjsepan/.dotnet/sdk]
  8.0.105 [/usr/home/sjsepan/.dotnet/sdk]

.NET runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.11 [/usr/home/sjsepan/.dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 8.0.5 [/usr/home/sjsepan/.dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.11 [/usr/home/sjsepan/.dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.5 [/usr/home/sjsepan/.dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]

Other architectures found:
  None

Environment variables:
  DOTNET_ROOT       [/home/sjsepan/.dotnet]

global.json file:
  Not found

Learn more:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet/info

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  https://aka.ms/dotnet/download

[kekekeks]

Avalonia.X11 currently depends on epoll for its event loop. Might need an alternative implementation fro BSD-based platforms

[kekekeks]

There are also plans to use timerfd_* apis, not sure if those are available with BSD