Languages - FreeBSD Wiki

The purpose of this page is to track support for critical programming languages.

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Language	arm64	amd64	risc-v	powerpc	powerpc64	powerpc64le
Erlang	✔	✔	❌ [1]	❌	✔	✔
Fortran	✔	✔	❌ [2]	✔	✔	✔
GHC	❌ [10]	✔	❌	❌	❌	❌
Go	✔	✔	❌ [3]	❌	❌	❌
Guile	❌ [11]	✔	✔	❌ [14]	✔	✔
Janet	✔	✔	❌ [4]	✔	✔	✔
Java	✔	✔	❌ [5]	❌	✔	✔
Lua	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Ocaml	❌ [12]	✔	❌ [6]	✔	✔	✔
Perl	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
PHP	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Python	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Racket	✔	✔	❌ [7]	❌	❌	❌
Ruby	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Rust	✔	✔	❌ [8]	✔	✔	✔
Scheme	✔	✔	✔
SBCL	❌ [13]	✔	❌ [9]	❌	❌	❌

[1] Target: riscv64-unknown-freebsd13.0

[2] Ignoring lang/gcc10: is only for aarch64 amd64 arm armv6 armv7 i386 powerpc powerpc64 powerpc64le, while you are running riscv64

[3] Ignoring lang/go: is only for aarch64 amd64 armv6 armv7 i386, while you are running riscv64

[4] Assertion failed: (sizeof(void *) == 4), function system_test, file ../src/boot/system_test.c, line 33. qemu: uncaught target signal 6 (Abort trap) - core dumped

[5] Ignoring java/bootstrap-openjdk11: is only for aarch64 amd64 armv6 armv7 i386 powerpc64 powerpc64le, while you are running riscv64

[6] Ignoring lang/ocaml: is marked as broken on riscv64: fails to build: hasgot.c:3:12: use of undeclared identifier 'secure_getenv'

[7] Ignoring lang/racket: does not run on riscv64, while you are running riscv64 (reason: unsupported platform)

[8] Ignoring lang/rust: is only for aarch64 amd64 armv6 armv7 i386 powerpc powerpc64 powerpc64le, while you are running riscv64 (reason: requires prebuilt bootstrap compiler)

[9] Ignoring lang/sbcl: is only for amd64 i386, while you are running riscv64

[10] rts/posix/OSThreads.c:314:5: error: unknown type name 'cpu_set_t'; did you mean 'cpuset_t'?

[11] posix.c:2173:3: error: unknown type name 'cpu_set_t'; did you mean 'cpusetid_t'?

[12] Ignoring lang/ocaml: is marked as broken on aarch64: Does not build: sh: as: not found

[13] Ignoring lang/sbcl: is only for amd64 i386, while you are running aarch64

[14] guile2 works