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signal-desktop Cross-platform centralized encrypted messaging service
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Maintainer: mikael@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-08-06 03:39:04
Last Update: 2025-08-06 03:35:18
Commit Hash: 1df0725
License: AGPLv3
WWW:
https://signal.org/
Description:
Signal is a cross-platform centralized encrypted messaging service developed by the Signal Technology Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC. It uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos. It can also be used to make one-to-one and group voice and video calls.
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/signal-desktop-7.58.0_3/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/signal-desktop-7.58.0_3/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/signal-desktop-7.58.0_3/AGPLv3
  4. bin/signal-desktop
  5. share/applications/signal-desktop.desktop
  6. share/pixmaps/signal-desktop.png
  7. share/signal-desktop/LICENSE.electron.txt
  8. share/signal-desktop/LICENSES.chromium.html
  9. share/signal-desktop/chrome_100_percent.pak
  10. share/signal-desktop/chrome_200_percent.pak
  11. share/signal-desktop/libEGL.so
  12. share/signal-desktop/libGLESv2.so
  13. share/signal-desktop/libffmpeg.so
  14. share/signal-desktop/libvk_swiftshader.so
  15. share/signal-desktop/libvulkan.so
  16. share/signal-desktop/locales/af-ZA.pak
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  108. share/signal-desktop/resources.pak
  109. share/signal-desktop/resources/app-update.yml
  110. share/signal-desktop/resources/app.asar
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  112. share/signal-desktop/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/@signalapp/ringrtc/build/freebsd/libringrtc-x64.node
  113. share/signal-desktop/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/@signalapp/sqlcipher/prebuilds/freebsd-x64/node_sqlcipher.node
  114. @(,,755) share/signal-desktop/signal-desktop
  115. share/signal-desktop/snapshot_blob.bin
  116. share/signal-desktop/v8_context_snapshot.bin
  117. share/signal-desktop/vk_swiftshader_icd.json
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Dependency lines:
  • signal-desktop>0:net-im/signal-desktop
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/net-im/signal-desktop/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install net-im/signal-desktop
  • pkg install signal-desktop
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: signal-desktop
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
ONLY_FOR_ARCHS: aarch64 amd64
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1750324460 SHA256 (signal-desktop-7.58.0-npm-cache.tar.gz) = 7e3ef94f069c705aa09d1e1232e273c071f306aa40b5eea85709f15585b88736 SIZE (signal-desktop-7.58.0-npm-cache.tar.gz) = 951815781

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SHA256 (freebsd-arm64-0.24.0.tgz) = c09c0acf0e892cf3aa54b61aa02d447a9ecf00a9d7f0e6165e81f208d25d7de0 SIZE (freebsd-arm64-0.24.0.tgz) = 3970551 SHA256 (freebsd-x64-0.24.0.tgz) = f2562d5c4b5d48f832c73f30dc6155adc505b5a296081ddae48b517f2e3d6b42 SIZE (freebsd-x64-0.24.0.tgz) = 4318529 SHA256 (signalapp-Signal-Desktop-v7.58.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 25b7e604a2661fcddb769cc62f4d691b76da4b2dc1684b949389907b840a5e0e SIZE (signalapp-Signal-Desktop-v7.58.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 45733559

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. libringrtc.so : multimedia/ringrtc
  2. libsignal_node.so : net-im/libsignal-node
  3. libsignal_sqlcipher_extension.a : devel/signal-sqlcipher-extension
  4. node_sqlcipher.node : security/node-sqlcipher
  5. app-builder>0 : devel/app-builder
  6. electron35 : devel/electron35
  7. npm : www/npm-node20
  8. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  9. gettext-runtime>=0.22_1 : devel/gettext-runtime
  10. node : www/node20
  11. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  12. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
  13. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  14. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  15. xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
  16. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  17. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  18. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  19. xi.pc : x11/libXi
  20. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  21. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
  22. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Runtime dependencies:
  1. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  2. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  3. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  4. xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
  5. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  6. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  7. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  8. xi.pc : x11/libXi
  9. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  10. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
  11. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Library dependencies:
  1. libasound.so : audio/alsa-lib
  2. libatk-bridge-2.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  3. libatspi.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  4. libcups.so : print/cups
  5. libdbus-1.so : devel/dbus
  6. libdrm.so : graphics/libdrm
  7. libepoll-shim.so : devel/libepoll-shim
  8. libevent.so : devel/libevent
  9. libexpat.so : textproc/expat2
  10. libFLAC.so : audio/flac
  11. libffi.so : devel/libffi
  12. libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
  13. libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
  14. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  15. libicuuc.so : devel/icu
  16. libnspr4.so : devel/nspr
  17. libnss3.so : security/nss
  18. libopenh264.so : multimedia/openh264
  19. libopus.so : audio/opus
  20. libpci.so : devel/libpci
  21. libpng16.so : graphics/png
  22. libsnappy.so : archivers/snappy
  23. libsndio.so : audio/sndio
  24. libwayland-client.so : graphics/wayland
  25. libwebp.so : graphics/webp
  26. libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon
  27. libxshmfence.so : x11/libxshmfence
  28. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  29. libgbm.so : graphics/mesa-libs
  30. libGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
  31. libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  32. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  33. libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
  34. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  35. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  36. libgtk-3.so : x11-toolkits/gtk30
  37. libxml2.so : textproc/libxml2
  38. libxslt.so : textproc/libxslt
  39. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  40. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
  41. libjpeg.so : graphics/jpeg-turbo
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Options name:
net-im_signal-desktop
USES:
desktop-file-utils gettext-runtime gl gnome jpeg nodejs:20,build pkgconfig ssl xorg
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/tar.gz/v7.58.0?dummy=/
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7.58.0_3
06 Aug 2025 03:35:18
commit hash: 1df0725945dec4a5dbf4e148b7b0df70a30cea20commit hash: 1df0725945dec4a5dbf4e148b7b0df70a30cea20commit hash: 1df0725945dec4a5dbf4e148b7b0df70a30cea20commit hash: 1df0725945dec4a5dbf4e148b7b0df70a30cea20 files touched by this commit
Koichiro Iwao (meta) search for other commits by this committer
*/*: Bump multimedia/openh264 consumers after dc94e01

net/freerdp{,3} have been already bumped in e447cd0, so not being bumped
again.

The following one-liner was run on the 2025Q3 branch instead of
cherry-picking 17a31bf, as cherry-picking would have resulted conficts.

  $ git grep -l libopenh264 | \
      grep '^.*/.*/Makefile$'| \
      xargs -t -n1 portedit bump-revision -i

Approved by:	portmgr (blanket)

Number of commits found: 1