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Port details on branch 2025Q4
rgbds Free assembler/linker for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color
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Maintainer: eduardo@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-11-01 09:45:08
Last Update: 2026-01-01 10:31:46
Commit Hash: fce6116
Also Listed In: games
License: MIT
WWW:
https://rgbds.gbdev.io/
Description:
RGBDS is a free GBZ80 assembler/linker package for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color. RGBDS additionally contains 2 extra tools to fix ROM headers, and convert PNG files to the Game Boy's planar tile format. The binaries it provides are: rgbasm(1) (assembler) rgblink(1) (linker) rgbfix(1) (checksum/header fixer) rgbgfx(1) (PNG-to-Game Boy graphics converter)
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/rgbds-1.0.1/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/rgbds-1.0.1/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/rgbds-1.0.1/MIT
  4. bin/rgbasm
  5. bin/rgbfix
  6. bin/rgbgfx
  7. bin/rgblink
  8. share/man/man1/rgbasm.1.gz
  9. share/man/man1/rgbfix.1.gz
  10. share/man/man1/rgbgfx.1.gz
  11. share/man/man1/rgblink.1.gz
  12. share/man/man5/rgbasm-old.5.gz
  13. share/man/man5/rgbasm.5.gz
  14. share/man/man5/rgbds.5.gz
  15. share/man/man5/rgblink.5.gz
  16. share/man/man7/gbz80.7.gz
  17. share/man/man7/rgbds.7.gz
  18. @owner
  19. @group
  20. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • rgbds>0:devel/rgbds
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/devel/rgbds/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install devel/rgbds
  • pkg install rgbds
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: rgbds
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1767262417 SHA256 (rgbds/1.0.1/rgbds-source.tar.gz) = 0bb80f6aaecc3ac173758686021a98cbb941aa0829124985f977ba8da4e48b21 SIZE (rgbds/1.0.1/rgbds-source.tar.gz) = 10556029

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
rgbds
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FreeBSD:14:latest1.0.11.0.1-0.9.3_11.0.10.6.1_2-0.6.1_2
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.0.11.0.1-0.9.21.0.10.7.00.7.00.7.0
FreeBSD:15:latest1.0.11.0.1n/a0.9.3_1n/an/a0.7.00.7.0
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.0.11.0.1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest1.0.11.0.1n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. bison : devel/bison
  2. cmake : devel/cmake-core
  3. ninja : devel/ninja
  4. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
Test dependencies:
  1. bash>0 : shells/bash
  2. git>0 : devel/git
  3. xxd>0 : sysutils/xxd
Library dependencies:
  1. libpng16.so : graphics/png
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
devel_rgbds
USES:
bison cmake:testing pkgconfig shebangfix
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds/releases/download/v1.0.1/
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Number of commits found: 3

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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1.0.1
01 Jan 2026 10:31:46
commit hash: fce61163b43eec25ce79a11257a6e9ee19056a7acommit hash: fce61163b43eec25ce79a11257a6e9ee19056a7acommit hash: fce61163b43eec25ce79a11257a6e9ee19056a7acommit hash: fce61163b43eec25ce79a11257a6e9ee19056a7a files touched by this commit
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) search for other commits by this committer
devel/rgbds: Update to 1.0.1

ChangeLog:	https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds/releases/tag/v1.0.1
MFH:		2025Q4 (bugfix release)
(cherry picked from commit 3162c08c5e7278e5e81b968bdf1f1ab2c4bf7e3b)
1.0.0
01 Nov 2025 09:36:26
commit hash: 9b9cf07b4d2912adda03328426319a33e01da3bdcommit hash: 9b9cf07b4d2912adda03328426319a33e01da3bdcommit hash: 9b9cf07b4d2912adda03328426319a33e01da3bdcommit hash: 9b9cf07b4d2912adda03328426319a33e01da3bd files touched by this commit
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) search for other commits by this committer
devel/rgbds: Update to 1.0.0

ChangeLog:	https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds/releases/tag/v1.0.0
MFH:		2025Q4
(cherry picked from commit e9dd08da144dd75e949a05f53ac5aba0a5dc4245)
1.0.0.r2
01 Nov 2025 09:36:20
commit hash: 2fb409a564102a1434881dcca28bbb6151c26f7ccommit hash: 2fb409a564102a1434881dcca28bbb6151c26f7ccommit hash: 2fb409a564102a1434881dcca28bbb6151c26f7ccommit hash: 2fb409a564102a1434881dcca28bbb6151c26f7c files touched by this commit
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) search for other commits by this committer
devel/rgbds: Update to 1.0.0-rc2

ChangeLog: https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc2
(cherry picked from commit 1a4e4c493df97ac387596f39de1a2c7b9a081e64)

Number of commits found: 3