| Port details |
- electron43 Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- 43.7.3 devel
 =1      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: 2026-07-16 19:51:07
- Last Update: 2026-09-19 08:59:14
- Commit Hash: c1bd79f
- People watching this port, also watch:: p5-OrePAN2, py311-pycparser, ladspa, p5-Net-HTTP, python
- 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:
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- electron43>0:devel/electron43
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/devel/electron43/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install devel/electron43
- pkg install electron43
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: electron43
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- ONLY_FOR_ARCHS: aarch64 amd64 i386
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1789758510
SHA256 (electron/chromium-150.0.7871.250.tar.xz.0) = ff59b1687c8682c9f6138ae24f0e3b0239c035a585857debd902a5783ebed85c
SIZE (electron/chromium-150.0.7871.250.tar.xz.0) = 2000000000
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- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
-
- 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>=1.98.0 : lang/rust
- cmake : devel/cmake-core
- gettext-tools>=0.26 : devel/gettext-tools
- gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
- ninja : devel/ninja
- node : www/node24
- node24>0 : www/node24
- pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
- python3.12 : lang/python312
- 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
- py312-python-dbusmock>0 : devel/py-python-dbusmock@py312
- 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
- node24>0 : www/node24
- python3.12 : lang/python312
- 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:
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- 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:
-
- git : devel/git
- jq : textproc/jq
-
- This port is required by:
- for Build
-
- net-im/signal-desktop
- textproc/obsidian
- for Run
-
- textproc/obsidian
Configuration Options:- ===> The following configuration options are available for electron43-43.7.3:
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_electron43
- 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
- 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 |
|---|
43.7.3
19 Sep 2026 08:59:14
 |
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron43: Update to 43.7.3
Changelog:
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.7.2
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.7.3
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) |
43.7.1
16 Sep 2026 13:57:49
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron43: Update to 43.7.1
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.7.1
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) |
43.7.0
15 Sep 2026 12:29:55
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron43: Use esbuild binary provided by npm package registry
The chromium upstream expects a specific version of esbuild for
building, which is sometimes different from the one we have in the
ports tree. To prevent such a discrepancy, always use the binary of
the same version as the upstream one which is provided by the npm
package registry.
Reported by: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> (via ports) |
43.7.0
11 Sep 2026 13:57:20
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron43: Update to 43.7.0
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.7.0
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) |
43.6.0_2
08 Sep 2026 10:38:00
|
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.98.1
PR: 298139 |
43.6.0_1
06 Sep 2026 11:06:16
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron{42,43}: Install electron.d.ts
Some applications (e.g. VSCode) requires the file to be present while
building. Although it can be downloaded from Electron's releases page,
include here for convenience. |
43.6.0
04 Sep 2026 22:53:55
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron43: Update to 43.6.0
Changelog:
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.5.1
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.6.0
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) |
43.5.0
01 Sep 2026 09:30:15
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron43: Update to 43.5.0
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.5.0
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) |
43.4.1
21 Aug 2026 12:48:21
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron43: Update to 43.4.1
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.4.1
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) |
43.4.0
17 Aug 2026 22:58:01
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron43: Update to 43.4.0
While here, prepare node modules archives for amd64 and aarch64
separately.
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.4.0
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) |
43.3.0
08 Aug 2026 21:39:13
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron43: Update to 43.3.0
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.3.0
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) |
43.2.0
25 Jul 2026 22:13:25
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron43: Update to 43.2.0
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.2.0
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) |
43.1.1_1
21 Jul 2026 06:47:24
|
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.97.1
PR: 296645 |
43.1.1
16 Jul 2026 19:49:15
|
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) |
devel/electron43: 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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