| Port details |
- signal-desktop Cross-platform centralized encrypted messaging service
- 8.14.0_5 net-im
 =11      8.14.0_2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: mikael@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: 2022-06-23 11:39:19
- Last Update: 2026-07-10 12:04:13
- Commit Hash: 9d403ae
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- 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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- 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:
-
- 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: amd64
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1781612777
SHA256 (signal-desktop-8.14.0-npm-cache.tar.gz) = 1d1b02be61e6842ccab582703c9d14ae1b62c5ec4b8de987ab3e8ef37d2b7226
SIZE (signal-desktop-8.14.0-npm-cache.tar.gz) = 407149890
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:
-
- libringrtc.so : multimedia/ringrtc
- libsignal_node.so : net-im/libsignal-node
- libsignal_sqlcipher_extension.a : devel/signal-sqlcipher-extension
- node_sqlcipher.node : security/node-sqlcipher
- app-builder>0 : devel/app-builder
- electron42 : devel/electron42
- npm : www/npm-node24
- update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
- gettext-runtime>=0.26 : devel/gettext-runtime
- node : www/node24
- pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
- python3.12 : lang/python312
- xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
- x11.pc : x11/libX11
- xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
- xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
- xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
- xext.pc : x11/libXext
- xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
- xi.pc : x11/libXi
- xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
- xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
- xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
- Runtime dependencies:
-
- update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
- x11.pc : x11/libX11
- xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
- xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
- xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
- xext.pc : x11/libXext
- xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
- xi.pc : x11/libXi
- xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
- xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
- xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
- Library dependencies:
-
- libasound.so : audio/alsa-lib
- libatk-bridge-2.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
- libcups.so : print/cups
- libdbus-1.so : devel/dbus
- libdrm.so : graphics/libdrm
- libepoll-shim.so : devel/libepoll-shim
- libevent.so : devel/libevent
- libexpat.so : textproc/expat2
- libFLAC.so : audio/flac
- libffi.so : devel/libffi
- libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
- libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
- libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
- libicuuc.so : devel/icu
- libnspr4.so : devel/nspr
- libnss3.so : security/nss
- libopenh264.so : multimedia/openh264
- libopus.so : audio/opus
- libpci.so : devel/libpci
- libpipewire-0.3.so : multimedia/pipewire
- libpng16.so : graphics/png
- libpulse.so : audio/pulseaudio
- libsnappy.so : archivers/snappy
- libsndio.so : audio/sndio
- libwayland-client.so : graphics/wayland
- libwebp.so : graphics/webp
- libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon
- libxshmfence.so : x11/libxshmfence
- libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
- libgbm.so : graphics/mesa-libs
- libGL.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
- libjpeg.so : graphics/jpeg-turbo
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:- No options to configure
- Options name:
- net-im_signal-desktop
- USES:
- desktop-file-utils gettext-runtime gl gnome jpeg nodejs:24,build pkgconfig python:build ssl 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 |
|---|
5.54.0
16 Aug 2022 15:53:51
 |
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
net-im/signal-desktop: Update to 5.54.0
Changes: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v5.54.0 |
5.53.0
05 Aug 2022 14:48:56
|
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
net-im/signal-desktop: Update to 5.53.0
Changes: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v5.53.0 |
5.52.0
29 Jul 2022 18:51:09
|
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
net-im/signal-desktop: Update to 5.52.0 |
5.51.0
29 Jul 2022 18:51:09
|
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
net-im/signal-desktop: Simplify handling of esbuild
npm is inconsistent between archs: the path and binary name is different
on aarch64 and amd64. Pass the binary path in ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH
It fixes the build on aarch64 |
5.51.0
23 Jul 2022 14:41:57
|
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
net-im/signal-desktop: Update to 5.51.0 |
5.49.0
09 Jul 2022 14:01:40
|
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
net-im/signal-desktop: Update to 5.49.0
Changes: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v5.49.0 |
5.48.0
02 Jul 2022 14:30:42
|
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
net-im/signal-desktop: Update to 5.48.0
Changes:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v5.48.0 |
5.47.0
02 Jul 2022 14:17:59
|
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
net-im/signal-desktop: Fix build on aarch64
- patch-package can't patch sqlite3 on aarch64, patch the yarn cache instead
- Delete ${WRKDIR}/electron${ELECTRON_VER_MAJOR}, as it may already contains
electron19 (in case of a build failure)
- Update electron-builder patch file |
5.47.0
01 Jul 2022 08:54:05
|
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
net-im/signal-desktop: mark as only for aarch64 and amd64
esbuild is only available on aarch64 and amd64 |
5.47.0
30 Jun 2022 08:55:09
|
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
net-im/signal-desktop: Update to 5.47.0
Changes:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v5.47.0 |
5.46.0
23 Jun 2022 12:23:57
|
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
signal-desktop: replace ECHO with ECHO_CMD
The "echo" command has to be used here
See Mk/bsd.commands.mk (ECHO_CMD) for details
Reported by: 0mp |
5.46.0
23 Jun 2022 11:38:17
|
Mikael Urankar (mikael) |
net-im/signal-desktop: Add new port
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,[16][17] and the Android version can optionally
function as an SMS app
WWW: https://signal.org/
Special thanks to: tagattie@ for maintaining the electron ports |
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