| Port details |
- weechat Lightweight and user friendly ncurses based IRC client
- 4.9.0 irc
 =14       4.9.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: brnrd@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: 2004-02-09 11:57:10
- Last Update: 2026-03-29 10:41:14
- Commit Hash: 310ddc0
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- License: GPLv3+
- WWW:
- https://weechat.org/
- Description:
- WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light IRC
client. Everything can be done with a keyboard, and it is customizable
and extensible with scripts.
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- Manual pages:
-
- 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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- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/irc/weechat/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install irc/weechat
- pkg install weechat
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: weechat
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1774777846
SHA256 (weechat-4.9.0.tar.xz) = 7cbb9b27f25a7d2f1d8c426a08f8e625eefbc1d3e59bbf775925444f72394b6f
SIZE (weechat-4.9.0.tar.xz) = 2792516
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:
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- asciidoctor : textproc/rubygem-asciidoctor
- asciidoctor : textproc/rubygem-asciidoctor
- cmake : devel/cmake-core
- ninja : devel/ninja
- pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
- gettext-runtime>=0.26 : devel/gettext-runtime
- gettext-tools>=0.26 : devel/gettext-tools
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- ruby33 : lang/ruby33
- perl5>=5.42.r<5.43 : lang/perl5.42
- Test dependencies:
-
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- Runtime dependencies:
-
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- ruby33 : lang/ruby33
- perl5>=5.42.r<5.43 : lang/perl5.42
- Library dependencies:
-
- libcurl.so : ftp/curl
- libgcrypt.so : security/libgcrypt
- libgnutls.so : security/gnutls
- libgpg-error.so : security/libgpg-error
- libcjson.so : devel/libcjson
- libaspell.so : textproc/aspell
- libzstd.so : archivers/zstd
- liblua-5.4.so : lang/lua54
- libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
- libtcl86.so : lang/tcl86
- Patch dependencies:
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- ruby33 : lang/ruby33
-
- This port is required by:
- for Run
-
- irc/weechat-otr
Configuration Options:- ===> The following configuration options are available for weechat-4.9.0:
API=on: HTTP REST API
BACKTRACE=on: Provide crash backtraces
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
HEADLESS=on: Build headless weechat as well
ICON=on: Desktop icon
ICONV=on: Encoding conversion support via iconv
MANPAGES=on: Build and/or install manual pages
NLS=on: Native Language Support
ZSTD=on: Zstandard compression support
====> Weechat Plugins
ASPELL=on: Spell checking support via GNU Aspell
CHARSET=on: Charset plugin (implies ICONV)
GUILE=off: Guile script support
JAVASCRIPT=off: Javascript script support
LUA=on: Lua scripting language support
PERL=on: Perl scripting language support
PHP=off: PHP bindings or support
PYTHON=on: Python script support
RUBY=on: Ruby script support
TCL=on: Tcl scripting language support
TYPING=on: Typing status plugin
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- irc_weechat
- USES:
- cmake cpe ncurses pkgconfig tar:xz iconv lua pkgconfig gettext perl5 python ruby tcl
- pkg-message:
- If upgrading
- Version 4.4 has breaking changes. Please check your configuration for
* relay/api: flatten JSON event object sent to clients, always set "body_type" and "body" (null if there is no body) in websocket frame, add body types buffers and lines (array), add field "request_id" in websocket frame (request and response)
* core, plugins: force "short_name" in buffers to non-empty value (name by default), remove buffer property "short_name_is_set"
* alias: display an error with /alias add or /alias addcompletion when the alias already exists, add options addreplace and addreplacecompletion in command /alias (#2095)
* irc: rename parameter -re to -raw in command /list (#2124)
* api: add constants for IPv6 and allow force of IPv6 in function hook_connect (#2164)
* irc: convert server option ipv6 from boolean to enum (disable, auto, force) (#2164)
* core: convert proxy option ipv6 from boolean to enum (disable, auto, force), set option to auto by default when creating a new proxy (#2164)
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