| Port details |
- nest Simulator for spiking neural network models
- 3.10 science
 =0      3.8_6Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: yuri@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: 2019-05-11 20:30:18
- Last Update: 2026-06-10 18:13:36
- Commit Hash: 61edd3c
- Also Listed In: biology
- License: GPLv2
- WWW:
- https://www.nest-simulator.org/
- Description:
- NEST is a simulator for spiking neural network models that focuses on the
dynamics, size and structure of neural systems rather than on the exact
morphology of individual neurons. The development of NEST is coordinated
by the NEST Initiative.
NEST is ideal for networks of spiking neurons of any size, for example:
* Models of information processing e.g. in the visual or auditory cortex of
mammals,
* Models of network activity dynamics, e.g. laminar cortical networks or
balanced random networks,
* Models of learning and plasticity.
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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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- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/science/nest/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install science/nest
- pkg install nest
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: nest
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1781065797
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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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- cmake : devel/cmake-core
- ninja : devel/ninja
- pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
- py311-cython>=3.2.4 : lang/cython@py311
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- Test dependencies:
-
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- Runtime dependencies:
-
- bash : shells/bash
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- Library dependencies:
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- libboost_thread.so : devel/boost-libs
- libgsl.so : math/gsl
- libltdl.so : devel/libltdl
- libreadline.so.8 : devel/readline
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:- ===> The following configuration options are available for nest-3.10:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
PYTHON=on: Python bindings or support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- science_nest
- USES:
- cmake:testing ncurses pkgconfig python readline shebangfix compiler:c++11-lang
- 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 |
|---|
3.10
10 Jun 2026 18:13:36
 |
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) |
science/nest: update 3.8 → 3.10 |
3.8_6
29 Jan 2026 13:16:02
|
Max Brazhnikov (makc) |
*/*: chase math/gsl update to 2.8
PR: 292499 |
3.8_5
15 Jan 2026 11:54:12
|
Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) |
science/nest: Change USE_PYTHON from cython to cython0
PR: 291778 |
3.8_5
20 Oct 2025 11:48:39
|
Dima Panov (fluffy) |
devel/boost: bump consumers after boost upgrade (+)
Get rid of direct dependency ob libbost_system.so, use libboost_thread.so
instead |
3.8_4
02 Jun 2025 00:40:43
|
Dima Panov (fluffy) |
devel/boost: bump consumers after Boost update |
3.8_3
14 Feb 2025 03:17:22
|
Dima Panov (fluffy) |
devel/boost: bump consumers after Boost-1.87 update
Sponsored by: Future Crew, LLC |
3.8_2
20 Nov 2024 10:05:25
|
Dima Panov (fluffy) |
devel/boost: bump consu,ers after update Boost to 1.86 release
Sponsored by: Future Crew, LLC |
3.8_1
03 Oct 2024 10:25:14
|
Dima Panov (fluffy) |
*/*: bump consumers after devel/boost* update
With hat: office
Sponsored by: Future Crew, LLC |
3.8
03 Aug 2024 08:27:30
|
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) |
science/nest: update 3.7 → 3.8
Reported by: portscout |
3.7
26 May 2024 21:57:09
|
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) |
science/nest: Broken on armv7
Reported by: fallout |
3.7
16 Apr 2024 04:15:49
|
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) |
science/nest: update 3.5 → 3.7
Reported by: portscout |
3.5_1
12 Aug 2023 01:37:41
|
Piotr Kubaj (pkubaj) |
science/nest: bump PORTREVISION |
3.5
04 Jul 2023 06:35:25
|
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) |
science/nest: Update 3.4 → 3.5
Reported by: portscout |
3.4
01 Jul 2023 08:21:49
|
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) |
science/nest: Update 3.3 → 3.4
Reported by: portscout |
07 Sep 2022 21:58:51
|
Stefan Eßer (se) |
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner) |
3.3_2
07 Sep 2022 21:10:59
|
Stefan Eßer (se) |
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
(Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above  ) |
3.3_2
12 Aug 2022 14:46:53
|
Dima Panov (fluffy) |
*/*: bump all consumers after recent boost upgrade |
3.3_1
31 May 2022 03:06:02
|
Piotr Kubaj (pkubaj) |
science/nest: remove redundant USES=compiler |
3.3_1
22 May 2022 20:17:16
|
Dima Panov (fluffy) |
devel/boost-all: bump all library consumers after boost upgrade
PR: 246106 |
3.3
08 May 2022 18:02:06
|
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) |
science/nest: Update 3.2 -> 3.3
Reported by: portscout |
3.2
27 Apr 2022 13:22:20
|
Piotr Kubaj (pkubaj) |
science/nest: check for omp.h on all architectures |
3.2
27 Jan 2022 20:27:58
|
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) |
science/nest: Update 3.1 -> 3.2
Reported by: portscout |
3.1_1
12 Jan 2022 19:41:22
|
Tobias C. Berner (tcberner) |
math/gsl: bump portrevision of consumers after update to 2.7.1
PR: 260201 |
3.1
21 Oct 2021 06:23:16
|
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) |
science/nest: Update 2.20.1 -> 3.1 |
2.20.1_2
20 Oct 2021 17:32:15
|
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) |
science/nest: Mark the PYTHON option broken; Add the 'test' target
Reported by: Filippo Adamo <filippo.adamo@gmx.de> (broken python module) |
2.20.1_1
30 Jun 2021 20:37:50
|
Piotr Kubaj (pkubaj) |
science/nest: fix build on powerpc
LLVM on powerpc doesn't have libomp. |
2.20.1_1
16 Jun 2021 19:31:27
|
Tobias C. Berner (tcberner) |
math/gsl: update to 2.7
From [1]
* What is new in gsl-2.7:
* fixed doc bug for gsl_histogram_min_bin (lhcsky at 163.com)
* fixed bug #60335 (spmatrix test failure, J. Lamb)
* fixed bug #36577
* clarified documentation on interpolation accelerators (V. Krishnan)
* fixed bug #45521 (erroneous GSL_ERROR_NULL in ode-initval2, thanks to M.
Sitte)
* fixed doc bug #59758
* fixed bug #58202 (rstat median for n=5)
* added support for native C complex number types in gsl_complex
when using a C11 compiler
* upgraded to autoconf 2.71, automake 1.16.3, libtool 2.4.6 (Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above ) |
2.20.1
07 Apr 2021 08:09:01
|
Mathieu Arnold (mat) |
One more small cleanup, forgotten yesterday.
Reported by: lwhsu |
2.20.1
06 Apr 2021 14:31:07
|
Mathieu Arnold (mat) |
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles. |
2.20.1
06 Dec 2020 09:22:23
 |
yuri |
science/nest: Update 2.20.0 -> 2.20.1
Reported by: portscout |
2.20.0_1
08 Mar 2020 21:56:37
|
jbeich |
Drop dependency on devel/openmp
- Drop if devel/llvm* was used as a substitute
Approved by: yuri, rene (earlier version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23020 |
2.20.0
01 Feb 2020 07:25:17
|
yuri |
science/nest: Update 2.18.0 -> 2.20.0
Reported by: portscout |
2.18.0_3
25 Oct 2019 23:41:34
|
tcberner |
math/gsl: update to 2.6
- math/p5-Math-GSL does not seem to have any upstream activity to make it work
with this version -> mark it broken
- this also breaks the two consumers of this port
- biology/gemma: has a conflict with cblas, and is makred broken.
PR: 241363
Exp-run by: antoine |
2.18.0_2
21 Sep 2019 18:59:57
|
jbeich |
devel/openmp: update to 9.0.0
- Connect tests to the framework to help QA remaining patches
- Force rebuild all consumers after https://reviews.llvm.org/D59783
Changes: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/openmp/tags/RELEASE_900/final/?view=log
ABI: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/llvm_openmp/ |
2.18.0_1
21 Sep 2019 16:34:48
|
pkubaj |
science/nest: fix build with GCC-based architectures
nestkernel/simulation_manager.h needs include sys/time.h for timeval struct when
compiling with GCC.
PR: 239482
Approved by: yuri (maintainer), linimon (mentor) |
2.18.0_1
26 Jul 2019 20:46:57
|
gerald |
Bump PORTREVISION for ports depending on the canonical version of GCC
as defined in Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk which has moved from GCC 8.3
to GCC 9.1 under most circumstances now after revision 507371.
This includes ports
- with USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
- with USES=fortran,
- using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and
- with USES=compiler specifying openmp, nestedfct, c11, c++0x, c++11-lang,
c++11-lib, c++14-lang, c++17-lang, or gcc-c++11-lib
plus, everything INDEX-11 shows with a dependency on lang/gcc9 now.
PR: 238330 |
2.18.0
28 Jun 2019 09:10:18
|
yuri |
science/nest: Update 2.16.0 -> 2.18.0
Reported by: portscout |
2.16.0
18 May 2019 22:12:50
|
yuri |
science/nest: Broken on i386
Reported by: fallout |
2.16.0
12 May 2019 08:24:11
|
yuri |
science/nest: Update 2.14.0-2100 -> 2.16.0
Reported by: portscout |
2.14.0.2100
11 May 2019 21:01:55
|
yuri |
science/nest: PYTHON_USE=python=cython instead of PYTHON_BUILD_DEPENDS
Reported by: mat |
2.14.0.2100
11 May 2019 20:29:57
|
yuri |
New port: science/nest: Simulator for spiking neural network models |
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