| Port details |
- electron42 Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- 42.4.0 devel
 =0      Package not present on quarterly.This port was created during this quarter. It will be in the next quarterly branch but not the current one. - Maintainer: tagattie@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: 2026-05-18 04:15:06
- Last Update: 2026-06-15 15:55:34
- Commit Hash: 67dae66
- License: BSD3CLAUSE LGPL21 MPL11 MIT
- WWW:
- https://electronjs.org/
- 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.
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- Manual pages:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
-
- electron42>0:devel/electron42
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/devel/electron42/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install devel/electron42
- pkg install electron42
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: electron42
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- ONLY_FOR_ARCHS: aarch64 amd64 i386
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1781338455
SHA256 (electron/chromium-148.0.7778.254.tar.xz.0) = 946b3281fd32725f4858da5a07232704011bc39d12023e847cfb6632e6ffd3da
SIZE (electron/chromium-148.0.7778.254.tar.xz.0) = 2000000000
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
-
- esbuild : devel/esbuild
- gperf : devel/gperf
- bindgen : devel/rust-bindgen-cli
- yasm : devel/yasm
- dri.pc : graphics/mesa-libs
- videodev2.h : multimedia/v4l_compat
- node24>0 : www/node24
- npm-node24>0 : www/npm-node24
- bison : devel/bison
- rust>=1.96.0 : lang/rust
- node : www/node24
- node24>0 : www/node24
- zip : archivers/zip
- yq : textproc/yq
- gettext-tools>=0.26 : devel/gettext-tools
- gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
- ninja : devel/ninja
- pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- clang22 : devel/llvm22
- nasm : devel/nasm
- xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
- x11.pc : x11/libX11
- xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
- xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
- xcursor.pc : x11/libXcursor
- xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
- xext.pc : x11/libXext
- xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
- xi.pc : x11/libXi
- xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
- xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
- xscrnsaver.pc : x11/libXScrnSaver
- xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
- qt5-buildtools>=5.15 : devel/qt5-buildtools
- libQt5Core.so : devel/qt5-core
- libQt5Widgets.so : x11-toolkits/qt5-widgets
- Test dependencies:
-
- git : devel/git
- py311-python-dbusmock>0 : devel/py-python-dbusmock@py311
- sentry-cli : devel/sentry-cli
- Xvfb : x11-servers/xorg-server@xvfb
- 8x13O.pcf.gz : x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps
- fonts.alias : x11-fonts/font-alias
- base : x11/xkeyboard-config
- xkbcomp : x11/xkbcomp
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- Runtime dependencies:
-
- xdg-open : devel/xdg-utils
- libasound_module_pcm_oss.so : audio/alsa-plugins
- alsa-lib>=1.1.1_1 : audio/alsa-lib
- x11.pc : x11/libX11
- xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
- xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
- xcursor.pc : x11/libXcursor
- xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
- xext.pc : x11/libXext
- xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
- xi.pc : x11/libXi
- xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
- xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
- xscrnsaver.pc : x11/libXScrnSaver
- xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
- Library dependencies:
-
- 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
- libasound.so : audio/alsa-lib
- libcups.so : print/cups
- libpipewire-0.3.so : multimedia/pipewire
- libsndio.so : audio/sndio
- libgbm.so : graphics/mesa-libs
- libGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
- libGLESv2.so : graphics/libglvnd
- libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
- libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
- libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
- libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
- libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
- libgtk-3.so : x11-toolkits/gtk30
- libxml2.so : textproc/libxml2
- libxslt.so : textproc/libxslt
- libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
- libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
- libiconv.so : converters/libiconv
- libjpeg.so : graphics/jpeg-turbo
- Fetch dependencies:
-
- git : devel/git
- npm-node24>0 : www/npm-node24
- node24>0 : www/node24
- Patch dependencies:
-
- node24>0 : www/node24
-
- This port is required by:
- for Build
-
- editors/vscode
- net-im/deltachat-desktop
- net-im/signal-desktop
- for Run
-
- net-im/deltachat-desktop
Configuration Options:- ===> The following configuration options are available for electron42-42.4.0:
CODECS=on: Compile and enable patented codecs like H.264
CUPS=on: CUPS printing system support
DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support
DIST=off: Build distribution zip files
DRIVER=on: Install chromedriver
KERBEROS=on: Kerberos support
LTO=off: Use Link-Time Optimization
PIPEWIRE=on: Screen capture via PipeWire
====> Options available for the group AUDIO
ALSA=on: ALSA audio architecture support
PULSEAUDIO=on: PulseAudio sound server support
SNDIO=on: Sndio audio support
====> Kerberos support: you can only select none or one of them
HEIMDAL=off: Heimdal Kerberos (security/heimdal)
HEIMDAL_BASE=off: Heimdal Kerberos (base)
MIT=off: MIT Kerberos (security/krb5)
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- devel_electron42
- USES:
- bison cargo compiler:c++17-lang cpe display:test electron:env gettext-tools gl gmake gnome iconv:wchar_t jpeg localbase:ldflags ninja nodejs:24,build pkgconfig python:build,test qt:5 shebangfix tar:xz xorg
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
|---|
42.4.0
15 Jun 2026 15:55:34
 |
Gleb Popov (arrowd) |
*: Fix dependency on Mesa after pkg-plist reshuffling |
42.4.0
15 Jun 2026 11:20:09
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron{37,38,39,40,41,42}: Unbreak chromium tarball extraction on
-current
When a user tries to build electron using a 16-current jail, it fails
in the extract phase with the following error:
tar: Pathname can't be converted from UTF-8 to current locale
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
This is due to the ports framework sets the environment variable
LC_ALL to C, which causes tar to fail to extract files containing
non-ASCII characters in their names. To cope with this, EXTRACT_ENV
was introduced in the commit 98103f194302. Utilizing this variable
when extracting the chromium tarball fixes the error.
PR: 296017
Reported by: Dan Kotowski <dan.kotowski@a9development.com>,
fgorter <fgorter@gmail.com> |
42.4.0
13 Jun 2026 14:19:41
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron42: Update to 42.4.0
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v42.4.0
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) |
42.3.3
09 Jun 2026 10:57:46
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron42: Update to 42.3.3
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v42.3.3
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) |
42.3.2_1
04 Jun 2026 08:52:51
|
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.96.0
PR: 295694 |
42.3.2
03 Jun 2026 10:59:10
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron42: Update to 42.3.2
Changelog:
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v42.3.1
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v42.3.2
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) |
42.3.0
30 May 2026 03:15:24
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron42: Update to 42.3.0
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v42.3.0
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) |
42.2.0
24 May 2026 12:59:04
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron42: Update to 42.2.0
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v42.2.0
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) |
42.1.0
18 May 2026 04:12:48
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron42: Add port: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript,
HTML, and CSS
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.
WWW: https://electronjs.org/ |
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